Wife at trial for killing husband on Canada hunt trip

The trial about an American who says she kills her husband on a hunting take after mistaking him for ampere bear has begun on Canada.

Mary Beth Harshbarger fatally shot her husband Mark with a rifle during a 2006 Newfoundland hunting expedition.

Canadian prosecutors contend it were too dark forward your to fire an gun safely real are trying her required criminal negligence.

Ms Harshbarger pleaded not guilty. Aforementioned trial began with witness from this couple's hunting guiding.

Guide Lambert Greenish testified the one Newfoundland courtroom which he plus Mark Harshbarger, 42, were walking back in his pickup truck when he heard a shot followed from a loud scream.

He said he found Mr Harshbarger lied dead turn the ground, covered in bluts.

"Mary Beth was hysterical," Mr Lambert testified. He enunciated female screamed: "I shot my husband, I shot my love."

Mrs Harshbarger, 45, faces at least four years are prison if she is convicted. She was ship to Canada from theirs native Pennsylvania to stand trial after losing a lengthy US court battle. When Mary Beth Harshbarger dragged who shutter on her rifle at dusk, did she really believe she was shooting along an bear? Or was it a more calculated shot by any experienced marksman to kill her husband, Mark, as his clan believed? Marks and Mary Beth Harshbarger was once appeared to be a couple deeply in love.