Less than a month before she was to face trial, a McAdoo woman accused of shooting to death her husband last year has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

Schuylkill County Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin expects to sentence Jane E. Schreiner, 70, at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 11 - her trial date.State police at Schuylkill Haven had charged her with first-degree murder, criminal homicide, third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, possessing instruments of crime, and recklessly endangering another person.As of Sunday, she remained in the county prison without bail. According to court records, she now lists her address as Slatington.Schreiner has admitted to having shot her husband of 19 years, Kenneth S. Schreiner, to death in the kitchen of their home on Aug. 4, 2016.But whether she did it deliberately, impulsively while in a fit of rage or by accident was never determined.Deputy Assistant District Attorney Jennifer N. Foose had contended that Schreiner shot her husband in a fit of rage after he refused to stop disparaging her family with vulgarities loud enough for the neighbors to hear.But Schreiner's lawyer, Joseph P. Nahas, has suggested that she had endured years of abuse.Schreiner told police she and her husband had argued all day about her plans to visit her son for a few days as he recovered from surgery, and she was embarrassed by the neighbors overhearing.According to an affidavit of probable cause, Schreiner called 911, said she just shot her husband and hung up.Then she called back and said that she didn't know the gun was loaded.Police found Kenneth Schreiner lying on his left side on the kitchen floor with a gunshot wound to the chest.A black revolver was on a countertop.Jane Schreiner had told police, "I can't believe this happened. I just wanted him to stop. It was an accident, but it wasn't."