Jerri Sanders
A Sequatchie County, Tenn., woman is behind bars on allegations she stabbed her husband to death during an argument.
Jerri Lynn Sanders, 44, is being held at the Sequatchie County Justice Center without bond on a charge of criminal homicide in the Tuesday stabbing death of her 61-year-old husband, John Wayne Sanders, at a home just north of Dunlap on Branch Road, Sequatchie County Sheriff Ronnie Hitchcock said Wednesday.
She was on probation from a conviction for having used a knife on her husband before, officials said.
John Sanders called Sequatchie County 911 dispatchers around 6:15 p.m. CDT saying he had been stabbed, Hitchcock said.
When deputies got to the home, they found Jerri Sanders sitting in the front yard smoking a cigarette. She told the deputies she had stabbed her husband, the sheriff said.