The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction against a man who killed a 66-year-old grandmother at the her home in Duluth.

Jerry Ann Elliott, who sold pine straw with her husband, was found dead on her den floor on Sept. 28, 2007. She had three gunshot wounds in her head.

Michael Douglas Fox, of Flowery Branch, who knew the couple kept large amounts of cash in their home, was charged with the killing. The state Supreme Court, in a decision Monday, upheld the murder conviction against Fox but reversed an armed robbery conviction against him, finding insufficient evidence to support it.

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