Despite

fervent cries of "I still love you," a Newnan

woman is behind bars in Fayette County and charged with

criminal attempt to kill her husband.

Courtney

Jacob, also known as Courtney Kimbrough, 37, of Kelly

Farm Road in Newnan, was denied bond Tuesday afternoon in

Fayette County Magistrate Court in connection with the

crime.

As Judge

Grady Huddleston outlined the court proceedings, Jacob

sat motionless and looked straight ahead while her

husband, Robert Kimbrough, 45, wept silently in the

audience.

The tiny

magistrate courtroom was packed with media and family as

Huddleston told Jacob that her next hearing would be a

preliminary hearing Dec. 13 at 10 a.m.

In

Wednesday's hearing, Griffin Judicial Circuit District

Attorney Bill McBroom asked the judge to deny bond

because if Jacob had been successful in killing her

husband, the case would have ultimately been a death

penalty case.

"This

was very cold and calculating," McBroom said.

After the

hearing, McBroom outlined the chilling facts in the case.

Although

the couple was just married for three months, McBroom

said Jacob, a self-employed riding instructor, started

seeking people to kill her husband at the beginning of

November. After hearing of Jacob's plans, an unnamed

Peachtree City resident went to the Peachtree City Police

with the tale.

The

Peachtree City Police called in the services of the

Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who sent in an

undercover hit man to talk to Jacob about her plan.

She was

very specific in how and when she wanted her husband

killed, said McBroom.

"She

originally wanted it done after Thanksgiving. But when

his parents cancelled the Thanksgiving plans, she told

the GBI agent she wanted it done Wednesday at 4

p.m.," he said.

McBroom

said that she told the undercover agent that her husband

could be killed in one of two ways. Since her husband had

an old car propped on blocks that he was constantly

working on, the killer could hit her husband in the head,

roll his body under the car, and drop the vehicle on him,

McBroom said.

The second

option would be a little messier, Mcbroom said. Jacob

mentioned a possible harrow accident that could look like

a farming accident, he said.

A harrow is

a cultivating implement with spikes or disks used to

pulverize the soil.

In return

for her husband's death, Jacob and the GBI agent agreed

on a $20,000 price tag, said McBroom. To show the agent

she was serious, McBroom said, she gave him a ring as a

"down payment" Nov. 15 and gave him $500

shortly before she was arrested at a Peachtree City

McDonald's on Ga. Highway 54 Monday morning.

The rest of

the money, McBroom said, would be delivered after she

collected on Kimbrough's insurance policy.

Jacob's

attorney, Nelson Tyrone, dismissed the charges and said

the allegations did not fit his client's previous

behavior. He said she would be undergoing psychiatric

evaluation to determine her mental state at the time of

her arrest.

McBroom

added that the first thing Jacob uttered after she was

arrested was, "I guess I need to see a

psychiatrist."