THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, November 24, 1995              TAG: 9511240071
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 
DATELINE: ROANOKE                            LENGTH: Short :   32 lines

APPEALS COURT TO HEAR SLAYING CASE WOMAN SAYS THERE WAS TOO LITTLE EVIDENCE TO CONVICT HER OF HER HUSBAND'S DEATH.

The Virginia Court of Appeals will hear an appeal from a Franklin County woman of her conviction for the murder of her husband.

Lawyers for Judy Jarrells will argue that there was insufficient evidence to convict her of the April 1994 murder of her husband. Judy Jarrells and a former boyfriend, Curtis Deel, were convicted of the murder of Robert D. Jarrells, 59, of Endicott.

Testimony showed Judy Jarrells asked several men, including Deel - whom she met when both were patients in a mental hospital - to kill her husband. Deel admitted shooting Robert Jarrells and said Judy Jarrells was involved with the plot from the beginning.

Judy Jarrells testified at her trial that she moved out of a trailer she shared with Deel in Bassett and broke off her relationship with him about two weeks before the slaying occurred. She then moved back in with her husband at their home in Franklin County, she said.

No date for the hearing has been set. by CNB