A woman who shot her husband in the head after he got upset with her for not making him dinner has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Sharon Hennington-Taylor, 57, was convicted this week of manslaughter for shooting her husband, 58-year-old Donald Taylor.

She was originally charged with murder, but a Dallas County jury convicted her on the lesser charge. The same jury determined her sentence Thursday.

Defense attorneys argued that Hennington-Taylor shot her husband in self-defense after he threw her to the floor and pinned her down in April 2017.

But prosecutors argued that Hennington-Taylor had time to go into the kitchen, pull out a gun and return to where her husband was standing in the foyer without his trying to interfere or harm her.

The woman told police afterward that she had never shot a gun and didn't realize she was pointing the weapon at his head. Taylor was shot in the center of his forehead.

Hennington-Taylor said her husband had been abusive toward her in the past and once brutally attacked her adult daughter. Defense attorney Cody Skipper asked jurors to give her probation.

He said Hennington-Taylor had complied with all the requirements of her bond during the past year while she awaited trial. Several friends, including a co-worker, described the woman as a rule-follower.

“Everything y’all ask her to do, she’ll do,” said Noreen Gaston, a friend of more than 40 years.

Gaston’s testimony became a point of contention between prosecutors and defense attorneys.

During cross-examination, prosecutor Marissa Hatchett asked whether Hennington-Taylor had been married before. Gaston said the defendant’s first husband had been murdered, which is not true.

Skipper accused Hatchett of intentionally implying that Hennington-Taylor had something to do with her first husband’s death. Hatchett denied the allegation.

But after jurors left the courtroom, the attorneys argued about the accusation.

State District Judge Teresa Hawthorne chided the attorneys Thursday for arguing in front of family members on both sides.

“That is unprofessional and uncalled for,” Hawthorne said. “Y’all take your disagreements outside the courtroom.”

Skipper was often animated during the trial, at times miming a husband throwing his wife to the floor and kneeling to hold the woman down. But he was more subdued in his final arguments to the jury during sentencing.

“The justice system is all about being fair,” he said.

He said Hatchett wasn’t fair in her questioning of Gaston. Skipper argued that Hatchett didn’t clarify with the witness “to prejudice you.”

Hatchett didn’t respond to those statements during her closing arguments to the jury. Instead, she claimed the defense was trying to pull on the jury’s “heartstrings because it’s a female defendant.”

The prosecutor pointed to several of Taylor's family and friends — including his ex-wife — who testified that he was the kind of man who walked away from arguments.

"He's the nicest person I've ever met," said Taylor's son-in-law, Shawn Jones.

Although Taylor had an affair with Hennington-Taylor while he was married to his first wife, the couple remained on good terms after their divorce, Beverly Taylor testified.

"No matter what the situation was, he still cared," said Beverly Taylor, who was married to Taylor for 28 years.

Hatchett pointed to the ex-wife’s testimony as proof that Taylor wasn’t abusive.

“He was not a violent man. There was no violence in that marriage,” she said.