Bride guilty of murdering groom hours before wedding
Na Cola Franklin, who stabbed her husband to death eight hours before thier marriage.
An eastern Pennsylvania woman who fatally stabbed her fiance on their wedding day was convicted of first-degree murder on Thursday, reported Huffington Post.
Jurors found Na Cola Franklin, 32, guilty after deliberating about three hours in Lehigh County Court. She could get life in prison when she is sentenced July 16.
Prosecutors say Franklin and 36-year-old Billy Brewster got into the deadly argument on Aug. 11 last year around 2 a.m. in their Whitehall Township apartment.
They were scheduled to be married at 10 a.m. in neighboring Allentown.
At her arraignment that night, Franklin appeared distraught and confused to learn Brewster was dead, telling the judge, "You got to check again!"
Defense attorney John Waldron told jurors during the trial this week that Brewster had come home drunk that night after an impromptu bachelor party.
Brewster attacked Franklin and then tried to leave with the couple's 9-month-old son, Waldron said.
Waldron argued Franklin killed the groom-to-be after grabbing a knife to protect her child.