Judge sentences Franklin man to 32 years in prison for deadly stabbing
![A Howard County judge sentenced Emmet S. Wood Jr., 45, of Franklin, Missouri, to 32 years in prison on Monday, April 18, 2022. Wood is convicted of killing 22-year-old Courtney Clardy in September 2020.](https://abc17news.b-cdn.net/abc17news.com/2022/04/Emmett-S.-Wood.jpg)
HOWARD COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ)
A judge has sentenced a Franklin, Missouri man for stabbing a woman to death in September 2020.
Howard County Judge Scott Hayes sentenced Emmett S. Wood Jr. to a total of 32 years in prison on Monday. The judge gave Wood consecutive sentences of 25 years in prison for second-degree murder and seven years in prison for armed criminal action.
Woods agreed to a plea deal with the Howard County Prosecutor's Office late last month in the death of 22-year-old Courtney Clardy.
Investigators found Clardy dead from stab wounds at a home in the 400 block of Crews Street in Franklin, Missouri, on Sept. 7, 2020.
Investigators arrested Woods a day later following a manhunt.