Trial delayed for man accused of killing wife during jealous rage<\/a><\/p>\nInstead of postponing the case, the judge and attorneys worked out a schedule that would allow the expert to participate later in the trial.<\/p>\n
Jury selection is now set for Sept. 17, with testimony scheduled to begin Sept. 21. The expert is expected to be available by Sept. 24.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors told the judge they expect their portion of the case to move relatively quickly, and the trial could last about a week to a week and a half.<\/p>\n
This isn’t the first time Byrd’s trial has faced a delay. An earlier request for more time was tied to information obtained from phones connected to the case.<\/p>\n
Byrd is charged with murder and tampering with evidence in the death of his wife, Angela Byrd. His trial had originally been scheduled for July before being pushed back to September.<\/p>\n
The case dates back to July 2025, when Byrd’s adult son told authorities his father had confessed to killing Angela. Her body was later found wrapped and hidden inside the couple’s mobile home in far South Bexar County.<\/p>\n
Authorities later found Byrd hiding at another home near Pleasanton Road and arrested him. Investigators have said Byrd admitted killing Angela during an argument about a month before her body was discovered and acknowledged taking steps to conceal her body and avoid being found. His defense attorney Rafael Leal says he he has already admitted to <\/p>\n
the murder to investigators. He says this is a punishment trial where they will go over why he committed the murder and try to reduce his sentence which could be 99 years to life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The murder trial of Charles Byrd will move forward this month after a judge today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-432133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}