Former Highmore Police Chief Ken Huber was sentenced to a mandatory life prison term without possibility of parole for murdering his wife.

Huber made no statement when given the opportunity at Friday's sentencing hearing.

A Stanley County jury deliberated only about two hours on Wednesday before finding the 42-year-old Huber guilty of first-degree murder.

Pam Huber was shot once in the forehead in October 2007 as she lay next to one of her daughters on a bed in the family's home in Highmore. She died later in a Sioux Falls hospital.

Ken Huber claimed the shooting was accidental as he moved his pistol between a bedroom dresser and a gun safe in a hallway just outside the bedroom.