GATESVILLE – Megan Lewis-Grant testified today in her capital murder trial in 52nd State District Court.

Ms. Lewis-Grant is accused of offering her former boyfriend Social Security death benefits that her children would receive upon her husband’s death.

“I had nothing to do with Michael’s death,” Ms. Lewis-Grant told jurors. “I would have done anything to keep this from happening to Michael.”

Ms. Lewis Grant’s refuted testimony given Wednesday by her former boyfriend John Hopkins. Hopkins has been sentenced to life in prison for the stabbing death of Ms. Lewis-Grant’s husband Michael Grant in September 2007.

Hopkins testified it was understood between the couple that he would kill Grant, but Ms. Lewis-Grant testified today that she only learned Hopkins was the murderer after she was arrested six months after the murder.

For an update on this story see Friday’s edition of the Telegram.