| Man held without bail in estranged wife's burning 04/12/2001 Associated Press HOUSTON – A prosecutor says the man accused of tying up his estranged wife and setting her ablaze is on parole for a previous attack on her.
Keeper Ray Hudson remained jailed today without bail in the attack on his wife.
Hudson, 46, was accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after Angela Faye Hudson was found burning in her home on Monday.
The 37-year-old woman sustained third-degree burns over much of her body and gasoline in her lungs. She remained in critical condition today at Memorial Hermann Hospital.
State District Judge Elsa Alcala on Wednesday ordered Keeper Hudson to remain in jail without bail.
After the couple argued, the suspect allegedly threatened his wife with a knife, tied her up with wire, doused her with gasoline and then set her afire, prosecutor Pat Stayton told the Houston Chronicle in Thursday's editions.
The suspect has had a history of attacks on his estranged wife, prosecutors said. Hudson pleaded guilty in 1997 to assaulting his wife and was sentenced to five years in prison. He was paroled in February 1999.
Stayton said that attack also involved a knife. He said the couple has been married 14 years and separated for the past three years.
In 1992, Hudson also was convicted of felony aggravated assault and placed on probation. After his probation was revoked, he served some time in the county jail.
Following a guilty plea to misdemeanor assault in 1995, Hudson was sent to the county jail. He also has misdemeanor convictions for possession of marijuana in 1985, disorderly conduct in 1988, theft by receiving in 1989, possession of marijuana in 1991 and evading arrest in 1996.
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