- {Huntington, West Virginia}...Around noon Thursday, a jury returned a guilty verdict convicting 25 year old Jesse Blevins of Huntington of voluntary manslaughter and concealment of a deceased human body for the July 2009 fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Cotton. Blevins had testified that he stabbed Cotton in self-defense, arguing she pulled a knife on him after he told her he had a new girlfriend. Blevins testified that his and Cotton's romantic relationship that had been filed with years of violence and arguments.