Murder Trial Underway

• {Huntington, West Virginia}...Opening arguments began Wednesday afternoon in Jesse Blevins' murder trial in Cabell County Circuit Court after a jury of five men and seven women was seated Wednesday morning. Blevins is charged with fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Elizabeth Cotton, in July 2009 at his dad’s house on Jackson Avenue in Huntington and then hiding her body in a crawl space in the home. The defense claims there was an altercation at the house and that Cotton attacked Blevins after she found out he was involved in a relationship with another woman and Blevins was only defending himself. The prosecution says Blevins obtained the knife earlier in the day and planned to carry out the murder in a place where there were no witnesses.