A central Indiana judge has given a 50-year prison sentence to a former deputy town marshal in the death of his wife who was shot with his police weapon.
A Clinton County judge ordered the sentence Tuesday for 57-year-old Keith Smith of Frankfort. A jury convicted him in September of murder for the death of 50-year-old Lisa Smith.
WLFI-TV reported Smith cried during Tuesday’s hearing and begged his wife’s family to believe he didn’t mean to kill her.
Prosecutors maintained during his trial that Smith was jealous of a relationship between his wife and another man when the shooting happened at their home in March 2016.
Smith was a deputy marshal for the town of Colfax and previously a Clinton County sheriff's deputy.
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