Appeal dismissed in case of man who shot himself in the head, causing amnesia

Wayne Paul Eisnor is accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife before attempting suicide in a grocery store parking lot in New Germany, N.S.

HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's highest court has dismissed an appeal from a man convicted of fatally shooting his wife in 2010, about four weeks after she moved in with another man.

The ruling from the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal says the trial judge did not err in his interpretation of the Criminal Code requirements for fitness to stand trial in the case of Wayne Paul Eisnor.

In September 2013, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury convicted Eisnor of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Court heard Eisnor shot and killed Tina Eisnor in the parking lot of a grocery store in New Germany, N.S., on June 30, 2010, before turning the gun on himself and firing a bullet into his brain.

The trial judge had earlier ruled Eisnor was fit to stand trial despite some amnesia caused by the gunshot wound.

The appeal court also dismissed Eisnor's complaint that the judge erred in permitting the jury to hear statements attributed to the victim by a number of witnesses, saying there are exceptions to barring hearsay evidence.