A McAdoo woman has been sentenced to state prison in the shooting death of her husband last year has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

Schuylkill County Judge Cyrus Palmer Dolbin sentenced Jane E. Schreiner, 70, to two to eight years in state prison.

With credit for the 13 months she has served, she will be eligible for parole in about a year.

Last month, she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

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.

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.