A West Logan man accused of shooting his wife was denied bond Wednesday in Logan Circuit Court.

Attorney Dwayne Adkins, who was filling in for defense attorney Mark Hobbs had asked Judge Roger Perry for a reasonable bond, noting that Finley was innocent until proven guilty.

Adkins said Finley had no prior felony arrests and he thought Finley had no misdemeanor arrests either and pointed out that Finley was a lifelong native of the Logan and Mingo areas with substantial ties in the community and that he was on medical leave from Aracoma Coal and was not a flight risk.

Adkins asked for a bond to be set in the amount of $50,000.

Assistant Prosecutor Robert Ilderton objected to the bond and asked that Finley be kept in jail until trial due to the serious nature of the charges.

Ilderton said he believed there existed an audio taped confession of the crime and argued that Finley had attempted to cover it up.

Even though the case has been forwarded for the grand jury, the preliminary hearing in magistrate court had not been held yet.

Judge Perry said the case was a serious one and that there could be a possibility of Finley being a flight risk.

"I will deny the bond," Perry said.

A Logan County man who was convicted in 2007 of killing his wife asked for another attorney to work on his appeal in Circuit Court on Tuesday, Aug. 12.

William A. Brennan III, 43, was arrested in June of 2005 and accused of murdering his wife Lisa after her body was found in the trunk of a car. A Logan County jury found Brennan guilty of voluntary manslaughter in December of 2007 at a retrial. At that time Judge Eric O'Briant said a sentencing would be set at a later date.

However, relatives of the victim told The Logan Banner they were upset because many months had passed and the sentencing never was set. And now, Brennan was having motions filed for an appeal in the case.

One of Lisa Brennan's relatives noted that in another recent Logan County trial the sentencing date was set within a few weeks of the jury verdict coming in.

Tuesday's hearing was originally scheduled to hear arguments for a new trial; however that was postponed when Brennan's current defense attorney Tim Conway argued that because of a recent development he felt there might be a conflict of interest that would prevent him from representing Brennan. Conway made a motion to withdraw from the case, which was approved by Judge O'Briant, who approved the appointment of Tim Koontz as Brennan's newest defense attorney.

"You can make arrangements to transfer your case records to Mr. Koontz' office in Charleston," Judge O'Briant said, setting the date of Sept. 12 at 11 a.m. for the next hearing to discuss the merits of the motion for a new trial that had been filed.

Brennan told the judge he had spoken with Koontz about representing him since his last trial.

"He said he'd do it," Brennan said.