Trial begins Tuesday for man accused of shooting coach
CANTON, Texas Opening statements start tomorrow in the trial of Jeff Doyal Robertson in the shooting last April of Canton High School's then-football coach, Gary Joe Kinne (KIH'-nee).
Kinne has a new job as Baylor University's linebackers coach. He's put his East Texas home up for sale, and he says his gunshot wound to the abdomen has mostly healed.
He says the last step before completely moving on is the trial of the player's parent accused of shooting him in his fieldhouse office at the East Texas school.
Prosecutors say Robertson barged into Kinne's office April Seventh and fired a single shot before fleeing the school campus in his pickup. Robertson's charged with aggravated assault against a public servant.
Robertson's a heating and air conditioning repairman whose son played on Canton's freshmen football team with Kinne's quarterback son.
Robertson's attorney, Robert Perkins of Tyler, doesn't dispute his client was the gunman. But he contends a high school football coach doesn't meet the standard of a public servant. That's an aggravating factor in the charge that could send his client to prison for life, if he's convicted.
CANTON, Texas Opening statements start tomorrow in the trial of Jeff Doyal Robertson in the shooting last April of Canton High School's then-football coach, Gary Joe Kinne (KIH'-nee).
Kinne has a new job as Baylor University's linebackers coach. He's put his East Texas home up for sale, and he says his gunshot wound to the abdomen has mostly healed.
He says the last step before completely moving on is the trial of the player's parent accused of shooting him in his fieldhouse office at the East Texas school.
Prosecutors say Robertson barged into Kinne's office April Seventh and fired a single shot before fleeing the school campus in his pickup. Robertson's charged with aggravated assault against a public servant.
Robertson's a heating and air conditioning repairman whose son played on Canton's freshmen football team with Kinne's quarterback son.
Robertson's attorney, Robert Perkins of Tyler, doesn't dispute his client was the gunman. But he contends a high school football coach doesn't meet the standard of a public servant. That's an aggravating factor in the charge that could send his client to prison for life, if he's convicted.
