Man, 84, Gets Prison for Strangling Ill Wife
From Times Wire Reports
An 84-year-old man who said he strangled his wife of more than 50 years as she slipped deeper into Alzheimer’s disease was sentenced to prison in Roanoke by Judge James Swanson, who said the case was the toughest he had faced on the bench.
William Wallace Hurt was sentenced to a 10-year prison term, to be suspended after he serves one year, for killing 83-year-old Neva Hurt.
Hurt had pleaded no contest in March to second-degree murder.
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