Photo: Nathaniel Freeman A Stone County man will spend the rest of his life in prison, after a jury sentenced him Friday on a charge of first-degree murder,
Photo: Nathaniel Freeman After a full day of testimony in Stone County Circuit Court, the state rested its case Thursday against 56-year-old Nathaniel Freeman
Photo: Nathaniel Freeman A Stone County jury has found 56-year-old Nathaniel Freeman of Onia guilty of murder in the first degree in the death of his wife, Dora
Photo: Nathaniel Freeman The jury trial of a Stone County man charged in the death of his wife in September 2019 got underway Wednesday afternoon in Mountain
Photo: Nathaniel Freeman
A Stone County man accused in the shooting death of his wife will undergo mental health and fitness to proceed examinations, according to an order filed in Stone County Circuit Court late last month.
Fifty-five-year-old Nathaniel Freeman of Onia, near Timbo, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 46-year-old Dora Freeman in September 2019.
Online court documents from Nathaniel Freeman’s attorney, James E. Hensley Jr. of Conway, indicate the Stone County man intends to rely on the defense of mental disease or defect.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the Stone County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call from a residence along Lee Hill Road on the afternoon of Sept. 23, 2019. The male caller did not state the reason for the call and dispatchers believed him to be intoxicated. Less than a half-hour later, the male called 911 again and said, “She shot me.”