CLEVELAND, Ga. – White County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Jeffrey Kidd, 50, of 4732 Town Creek Road last week and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following a domestic dispute with his wife Frances Kidd, 54.

When deputies arrived at the scene, the observed Ms. Kidd trying to leave the scene. According to the arrest report when they stopped here they noticed blood on her head, clothes, hands, legs and feet. They radioed for EMS then entered the residence and found Mr. Kidd laying in the bed hiding under covers.

He stated that he was sitting in his recliner drinking beer and she grabbed the other beers and poured them out. He also said she became violent because she had been drinking and tried to hit him in the head with a wine bottle.  But when asked where all the blood came from, he told deputies she did that to herself.

One of the deputies observed blood on the recliner, the floor and on a wine bottle that also had hair fibers.

Ms. Kidd stated the argument became heated after she began pouring the beer out and that he hit her on top of the head with something but she didn’t know if it was his fist or a bottle. She declined medical treatment.

Mr. Kidd was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and transported to the White County Detention Center.