You are thinking of Robert Blake. He was charged and acquitted, I believe. Shatner was never even arrested.
right.
Robert Blake was the Baretta guy with the bird, my bad.
Mar 16, 2005 - LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Four years of a real-life crime story ended Wednesday for actor Robert Blake, the star of “In Cold Blood” and “Baretta,” when a California jury acquitted him of murder in the 2001 slaying of his wife. Blake, 71, met the verdicts with sobs and embraced his lawyer after the ...”
So Captain Kirk cap’d his wife?
missed that.