People v. Jefferson

The defendant was charged with the crime of assault with a deadly weapon, it being charged that on a certain day she committed such an assault upon the person of one G. Mehegan. A jury found her guilty as charged, and she has appealed from the judgment which followed.

A quarrel occurred between the defendant and her husband about 2 p. m. on February 27, 1953. In response to a radio call several officers arrived and found the defendant standing in the yard of her home, and her husband out in the street. She had a butcher knife in her hand and told one of the officers that he would have to use…