BURNET — The day after a Burnet County jury found him guilty on three counts of intoxicated manslaughter in the June 2009 traffic deaths of a father and two children, John Wesley Horn asked for mercy.
The jury gave him none Friday.
Horn could spend the next 60 years in prison. The earliest he would be eligible for parole is 30 years.
“If there was a case that deserved the maximum sentence, this was one of them,” said Burnet County District Attorney Sam Oatman.
When Horn, 30, of Kingsland took the stand during the sentencing phase of the five-day trial in visiting state District Judge David Shaver’s court, he apologized to the family of 4-year-old Madison Rutland, 37-year-old Russell Rutland and 9-year-old Hunter Rutland, who had lived in Spicewood.
