Smithfield, N.C. — Johnston County deputies arrested a Smithfield woman Wednesday after they said she set fire to the bed where her husband was sleeping.
Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Tammy Amaon said Joyce Renee Finch, 50, of 161 Ogburn Road, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Finch and her husband, Ricky Finch, 54, argued at the home of a neighbor on Saturday, Amaon said. After Ricky Finch went home to bed, his wife poured gasoline on the sheets and set them on fire, she said.
Ricky Finch suffered minor injuries.



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May 29, 2009 2:17 p.m.
May 29, 2009 12:36 p.m.
(I only bring up the self-defense angle because a great number of women who have been imprisoned for trying to kill men had been battered and suffered other abuse beforehand. I have no idea if it happened here, and I believe that women who try to kill men out of malice or greed deserve the same treatment that men who murder women out of malice or greed deserve.)
May 29, 2009 10:32 a.m.
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