When the jury begins deliberating in Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver’s ongoing trial over the fatal shooting of his wife, they will have the option of convicting him of something other than murder.

On Friday, Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Robert McBurney said he will add charges of involuntary manslaughter due to reckless conduct, a felony, and involuntary manslaughter due to criminal negligence, a misdemeanor, to the charges of malice murder and felony murder McIver already faces.

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