CORINTH, Miss. (WTVA) — A man charged in the shooting death of his wife in Alcorn County in 2010 has pleaded guilty to capital murder.
District Attorney Trent Kelly says Preston Pegg, Jr., 38, entered the plea in Alcorn County Circuit Court Thursday morning.
Pegg is accused of shooting and cutting his estranged wife, Joanna Pegg, 36, with a box cutter and throwing her in the back of his pickup in McNairy County, Tennessee.
He then drove into Alcorn County where authorities say he shot her again, killing her.
The capital murder charged is enhanced because of the use of a firearm.
Pegg also pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Judge Thomas Gardner sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 20 years.
