Relative convicted in killing of commissioner's wife

<p>A distant cousin of a Twiggs County commissioner faces a life sentence after being convicted in the strangling death of the commissioner's wife.</p><p>Albert Lee King, 20, was found guilty Friday of murder and aggravated assault in the Sept. 10, 2003, killing of 51-year-old Leila Huston, wife of Commissioner Wayne Huston.</p><p>King will be sentenced to life in prison on the murder charge and could face between one and 20 years on the aggravated assault charges, said Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Ralph Walke.</p><p>King confessed to the killing during a polygraph test shortly after the investigation began.</p><p>Authorities said King, who lived across the street from the Hustons, killed Huston during an argument in which she accused him of stealing $1,300 from her house. King told police that he choked her with a do-rag and beat her in the head.</p><p>Wayne Huston came home that afternoon and found his wife's body outside their house covered with a quilt, authorities said.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2866478)</p>