REDWOOD CITY - A jury in San Mateo County Superior Court today found a Daly City man accused of fatally stabbing his wife in 2006 guilty of first-degree murder.

After six days of deliberation the jury found Quincy Dean Norton Sr., 33, guilty of first-degree murder. Quincy Norton was charged with stabbing his wife Tamika Norton, 31, in their Mira Vista Court home on July 22, 2006.

Quincy Norton testified that he came home that morning to find his wife dead in the bedroom. He said he had been at Anitra Johnson's home that night, a woman with whom he has a daughter, and insinuated that Johnson took his keys that night when she left the home for a few hours after the two had a fight.

However, during the trial the couple's sons testified that they heard their parents arguing the morning their mother died. The older son, Quincy Jr., said his mother screamed out he and his brother's names. The boys then said that Quincy Norton took them and their 1-year-old sister to a cousin's house.

Quincy Norton hid from authorities for more than a month before being arrested in San Jose on Aug. 27, 2006.

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