Henry Baxter was sentenced to 23 years in prison Monday.
Erman Thompson
Ashly Thompson was indicted last September on one count of being an accessory after the fact, a Class E felony.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -
A man accused of killing and decapitating another man last summer pled guilty to second degree murder on Monday.
Henry Baxter appeared in a Nashville courtroom earlier in the day where he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
During an argument with the victim, Erman Thompson, last July, Baxter shot the 48-year-old man twice before decapitating him.
Thompson's head was found in a trash can one day after a mailman discovered his body in a field less than two blocks away from his home.
Police allege Thompson's wife, Ashly, lied to them in the initial stages of the murder investigation and withheld information.
She was indicted last September on one count of being an accessory after the fact, a Class E felony.
She pled not guilty.
Baxter had been living at Thompson's home along with Thompson's wife Ashly and her three children.
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