Stripped of his equity partnership at Atlanta’s Fisher & Phillips, Claud “Tex” McIver’s financial situation was dire when he shot and killed his wife, a forensic accounting expert testified Wednesday at McIver’s ongoing murder trial.

Dean Driskell, managing partner at FTI Consulting an adjunct professor at Georgia State University, testified that, after reviewing more than 20,000 pages of McIver’s financial records, he determined that McIver was “cash poor” when he shot Diane McIver in the back as they traveled through the streets of downtown Atlanta on their way home from a weekend at their 85-acre ranch.