Former Hill County attorney going to trial in Texas on shooting charge

A former Hill County attorney is going to trial in Abilene, Texas, on a charge accusing her of shooting her estranged husband multiple times at his home there.

The attorney of Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson, who was Hill County attorney from November 2016 to July 2018, told the 104th District Court in Abilene Thursday that Cole-Hodgkinson wants to go to trial on the felony charge of aggravated assault-family violence, court officials said this morning.

The date of her trial has not yet been set.

Cole-Hodgkinson was arrested and booked into jail in Abilene, Texas, Feb. 3, on the shooting charges and w...