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A Loudoun County Circuit Court jury convicted William Evans-Smith of second degree murder Friday afternoon after 4*6 days of deliberation.
He was accused of murdering his wife Barbara on the morning of April 15.
The victim was found in her upstairs bedroom, dead from strangulation, with a pair of panty hose around her neck. Evans-Smith was arrested a week later after Loudoun Sheriffs Department investigators presented their evidence to a special Grand Jury.
The Circuit Court jury also recommended that the retired Army colonel and official at The American University receive the minimum penalty of five years in prison. Judge Carlton Penn told jurors they could convict Evans-Smith of either first or second degree murder—a first degree murder conviction carries a prison sentence of 20 years to life, while a second degree murder conviction carries a penalty of from five to 20 years.
Attorneys for Evans-Smith say they will appeal. In the meantime, he is free on $100,000 bond.
Farm donated to park
Mrs. James H. Symington will on Sept. 27 make a gift of her 286-acre Temple Hall Farm to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, fulfilling a dream she has had for 15 years, she said in a recent interview.
Temple Hall is approximately five miles north of Leesburg and a mile west of the Potomac River. Although the property will be deeded to NVRPA, it will remain Mrs. Symington’s home.
It will not immediately be open to the public, and NVRPA has not decided exactly what plans it has for the farm.
“It’s one of the greatest gifts we’ve ever received,” said Darrell Winslow, executive director of the NVRPA.
Sept. 27 is the date Mrs. Symington chose to complete the agreement because it will be the 45th anniversai j of the day she and her late husband purchased the property.
She said she decided in the 1970s that she wanted to guarantee that the farm would not be lost to westwardly encroaching development.
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