STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo.—A 57-year-old Steamboat Springs man accused of trying to kill his wife has been sentenced to 38 years in prison.
The Steamboat Pilot & Today ( ) reports Robert Cash was sentenced Friday for what Judge Shelley Hill described as an unthinkable act tantamount to torture.
A jury convicted Cash in January of attempted first-degree murder for shooting his then-wife Rhonda Heaton in the back of the neck on June 11, 2010, at their west Steamboat Springs home.
Heaton told jurors Cash refused to call an ambulance after shooting her and he continued to check on her in their bedroom to see if she had died. The couple were going through a divorce and were in the process of losing their home to foreclosure. Cash also had recently lost his job.
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Information from: Steamboat Pilot & Today,
