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Man found guilty of dousing woman with gas

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By The Associated Press

Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 - 08:22:04 am CST

HASTINGS — An Adams County jury has found a man accused of dousing a woman with gasoline guilty of trying to kill her.

The jury took less than two hours to find John Roberts guilty of first-degree attempted murder, making terroristic threats, first-degree domestic assault and first-degree arson.

He was accused of pouring gasoline on the woman and trying to set her on fire.

The woman testified that she believed she was going to die.

No sentencing date has been set.


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correcting the editor wrote on November 20, 2008 9:28 am:
" man does not douse woman with "GAS", it's FUEL. Gas is in a "GAS" form, "FUEL is in a liquid form. "

 questioning the commentor wrote on November 20, 2008 12:01 pm:
" Then I guess the place we buy fuel needs to be called fuel stations from now on instead of gas stations? "

 Correcting the correction wrote on November 20, 2008 12:04 pm:
" 'Gas' in this case is obviously the commonly used slang for 'gasoline'.

Not 'gas' as a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion. "

 Doug wrote on November 20, 2008 6:06 pm:
" I think everyone understood that GAS was short for gasoline and not a gaseous form. Gasoline is not in a gaseous form so consider yourself corrected. If the editor would have allowed fuel to be used, we wouldn't know if it was gasoline, diesel, wood or a chocolate bar. All of these are fuel in some form. "

 Clay wrote on November 20, 2008 9:13 pm:
" Yes, but it he would have succeeded in setting her on fire then the gasoline would have produced a proper gas according to the definition. "

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