Commonwealth v. Knight

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

Appellant Glenda Yvonne Knight pleaded guilty to murder of the third degree for killing her first husband. The court imposed a sentence of imprisonment of eight to twenty years. Appellant’s only contention is that the trial court abused its discretion in imposing sentence. 1 We affirm the judgment of sentence.

On September 27,1975, appellant drove to the home of her former husband and killed him by firing a single shot through the skull with a .22 caliber rifle. Immediately after the shooting, appellant called to a pair of passing neighbors that she had…