NORWICH – A woman accused of trying to kill her husband with a kitchen knife avoided an attempted murder trial Monday by pleading guilty to a lesser charge. Before jury selection could begin in Chenango County court yesterday, Barbara Revette appeared in court to plead guilty to 2nd degree assault and injury to a person with a deadly weapon.

In October 2005, Revette and her husband, Andrew, engaged in a heated domestic dispute in the Town of Otselic that erupted into violence when she allegedly grabbed a 14-inch kitchen knife and stabbed her husband in the stomach.