After delibertating for 45 minutes, a superior court jury yesterday convicted Hugh G. Burnett, 23 years old of assult with a deadly weapon for a knife attack upon his wife Ada 21.

The trial required one day. Burnett had been charged with an assult with intent to commit murder but the jury returned a verdict for the lesser crime.

Burnett will be sentenced tomorrow at 10 a.m. by Judge Charles L. Allison.

The slashing occurred Nov. 23 in Victorville, where Mrs. Burnett was visiting her sister and brother-n-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hodges.

Burnett went ot Victorville from Los Angeles and an argumnet took place when he tried to persuade his wife to return to Granite, Okla., their former home.

During the argument Burnett slashed his wife with a pocket-knife three times.

Mrs. Burnett, her face disfigured by scars from the knifing was the principal witness called by the state.

She testified her husband ordered her to return to Oklahoma with him saying "are you going, or do you want murder in this house tonight?"

"He then struck me in the eye, with his fist, knocking me against the wall of the house then took out his knife and cut me three times", she related. "then he turned to my sister and said he out to kill her too."

Mrs. Burnett was slashed twice on the face, once from her forhead across her face to the cheek, the slash narrowly missing her eyes and also on the right cheek. Andother cut went to the shoulder blade.

The wife wept during her testimony, interrupting the trial at one time when she was unable to go on. During most of her account Burnett turned his chair around and refused to look at his wife.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Jerome B. Kavanaugh and Deputy Wade E. Balcom represented the state, while Burnett was represented by Attorney Henry Wenzlaff.

Members of the jury were Edgar G. Perry, San Bernardino; Lottie B. Nickerson, Pauline W. Coble, George W. Rose, R. D. Stitt, Redlands, Mrs. John H. Waldron, Colton, John L. Bradburn, Ontario; Mrs. Harry Roberds, Alta Loma; May E. Bowman, Upland; C.H. Quantock,Loma Linda; Pearl A. Wright,Fontana; and W.J. Rolfe, Mentone.