The victim had been shot near the door between the garage and the downstairs gameroom and then was dragged about fifteen feet in a series of movements to a spot between the rear of his car and the garage door. The pathologist did opine that death appeared to be closer to 6:15 p.m. on the evening of February 11 and the early morning hours of February 12, 1976. A pathologist was unable to set an exact time of death, but estimated that death occurred between 6:15 p.m. Death was caused by a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, fired from a distance of no greater than eighteen inches. ![]() The facts are as follows.Īt approximately 1 a.m., on February 12, 1976, appellant discovered the body of her husband, Michael DeJohn, in the garage of their suburban Pittsburgh home. This direct appeal followed.Īppellant first claims that the evidence is insufficient to sustain her conviction for murder of the third degree. ![]() Post-verdict motions were denied and appellant was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of ten-to-twenty-years for the murder conviction and one-to-three-years for the attempted theft by extortion conviction. In a subsequent nonjury trial, *35 she was also convicted of attempted theft by extortion. ![]() DeJohn, was convicted by a jury of murder of the third degree. Atty., Pittsburgh, for appellee.īefore EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.Īppellant, Jill V.
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