Woman stabbed, left at hospital

A Jackson woman dropped off Friday at Southeast Hospital with five stab wounds told police her husband was the person who hurt her before leaving her at the hospital.

Her husband, Derrick R. Williams Jr., 22, of Jackson, drove off but was found later at his home, police said. He was charged with second-degree domestic assault and is currently being held on a $50,000 cash-only bond in the county jail.

The woman told police her husband stabbed her right side as she sat next to him in their vehicle, near South Spanish and Good Hope streets in Cape Girardeau, according to a probable cause statement written by Cape Girardeau officer Henry Jay Freeman.

Because Williams has at least two prior felony convictions, he is subject to an extended prison term under Missouri law if he is convicted of the assault. He pleaded guilty in 1999 to felony marijuana smuggling in the U.S. District Court in San Diego, Calif., and pleaded guilty in 2003 to felony tampering with a motor vehicle in Perry County, Mo.