Courtney Duval

Jacob flashed her wedding ring and a broad smile minutes before admitting

that she tried to hire someone to kill her husband, Bobby Kimbrough Jr.

Kimbrough told

the court Wednesday that he still loves her and he wants to keep the marriage

intact.

He added that

he was not afraid of Jacob, but he would be "guarded" at first

when she comes home.

"Most

people think I'm a fool for sticking with her," he said.

Jacob, of Newnan,

pled guilty to conspiracy to commit murder Wednesday morning before Chief

Superior Court Judge Ben Miller. But Miller still has not determined whether

he will approve a regular guilty plea or a plea of guilty but mentally

ill.

The mentally

ill plea would allow Jacob to be evaluated by the state for mental illness

and receive treatment if necessary, said District Attorney William McBroom.

Miller said he expected to issue an order by the first of next week.

Jacob's attorneys

asked Miller to sentence her to probation so she could receive better

treatment.

Jacob has been

diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, psychiatrists testified.

But McBroom argued that Jacob knew what she was doing when she attempted

to hire an undercover GBI agent to kill her husband.

A black-and-white

surveillance video of a November 1999 meeting between Jacob and agent

Patrick Skinner was played in court. It showed Jacob giving Skinner a

white box that included a gun, photos of her husband and his vehicle and

five $100 bills as a down payment for the hit.

Jacob told

Skinner she was very concerned that Kimbrough's death look like an accident.

She gave Skinner

a date and time to make his move: Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. so she wouldn't be

home at the time.

"That's

a wonderful alibi for me," she said. "I'll be with people ..."

Jacob also

told Skinner it was very important that she not be linked to the killing.

"I'm not

going to jail for this jerk," she said as the meeting ended, moments

before she was arrested by police in the McDonald's parking lot on Ga.

Highway 54 in Peachtree City.

Earlier in

the video, Jacob said she wanted the killing to be "clean."

She said if Skinner shot Kimbrough as originally planned, "it screams

of hit."

Instead, Jacob

suggested that Skinner meet Kimbrough at their home under the auspices

of looking at car parts. Then, Skinner could knock out Kimbrough, place

his body under the propped-up car and drop the car on his body.

"The important

thing is this has to look like an accident," Jacob said.

Addressing

the court at the end of the hearing, Jacob said the surveillance video

was the "most horrible thing I've ever seen. "It was like watching

a movie of someone else."

Kimbrough,

on the stand, said he wanted to patch up their marriage. He agreed to

make sure Jacob receives treatment for her mental disorder, and he also

agreed to insure she takes her medication.

If she didn't,

he would notify the court and her probation officer, he said.

Kimbrough said

his wife had been acting so erratically before her arrest that he wasn't

very surprised when GBI agents told him his wife was arrested for planning

to kill him.

Kimbrough said

before her arrest, Jacob accused him of plotting to kill her, having an

affair and molesting his children, which he vehemently denied. Still,

she wouldn't accept his explanation, he added.

Once, she pulled

a gun on him when they were wrestling with each other while fooling around,

Kimbrough said.

Later, Skinner

testified that he was brought into the case after someone tipped off the

Peachtree City Police Department about Jacob wanting to hire someone to

kill her husband.

Skinner said

he first met with Jacob at Shadows Restaurant in Peachtree City to discuss

what she wanted. He said he told her she could change her mind about the

killing and he would back off with no problem.

Jacob's father,

mother and sister testified that her mood and demeanor changed dramatically

after she was struck in the head and trampled during a horse riding accident

in the spring of 1999. They said she became withdrawn from family members

she was once close with.

Jacob's attorneys

said Miller could enact strict probation conditions to insure that she

receives treatment and keeps taking her medication.

"Sending

her back to jail would do very little," said Janet Harris, who defended

Jacob along with attorney Ed Garland.

"This

crime would have never been committed except for that mental illness,"

Harris said.

Miller said

he requested that the two different pleas be entered so he could hear

evidence before determining which course of action was more appropriate.