The murder trial for Jewell Moses Bess is being postponed from February after defense and state attorneys clashed over a procedural issue for medical experts to testify. Murfreesboro Post contributor Sam Stockard reports last week, defense attorney Chuck Ward filed a notice seeking permission for medical expert testimony on whether the blood-alcohol content of Deborah Sherfield Bess had anything to do with whether she committed suicide in 1986.

She was 38-years old when she was found dead of a gunshot wound on August 19th, 1986 at her Richland Road home. Investigators at the time ruled her death a suicide, but in May of 2011, Rutherford County Sheriff's Cold Case Detective Lieutenant Bill Sharp and Sergeant Dan Goodwin received new information about the circumstances of her death after a quarter of a century...

Moses Bess, 65, was indicted in March 2012 on a first-degree murder charge in the alleged shooting death of his former wife at her Richland Road home. Bess has been serving time in state prison after pleading guilty to four counts of child rape in 1998 and has not been allowed out on bond in the murder case. Stockard reports no firm date has been set for a motion in the trial.

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Bess trial postponed due to procedural issue (Murfreesboro Post)

Moses Bess Charged With Murdering Wife 25-Years Ago (WGNSRadio.com)