LISBON — A new trial date of July 29 is now set in the case against Michael Stacy, who is accused of attempted murder and other charges for allegedly beating a woman and trying to start a fire in Wellsville last year.

Stacy, 35, 19th Street, Wellsville appeared Monday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for a status hearing before Judge Megan Bickerton, who granted a request for a continuance by defense attorney Charley Kidder, requiring new hearing dates.

Kidder said the additional time will give him an opportunity to go over some more information with his client. He remains jailed under a $100,000 cash or surety bond.

His jury trial was originally supposed to begin June 3.

Bickerton also set a date for a new final status hearing at 11 a.m. July 21.

Besides the first-degree felony attempted murder count, the charges against Stacy include felonious assault, a second-degree felony, two counts of attempted aggravated arson, one a second-degree felony and one a third-degree felony, third-degree felony abduction and fourth-degree felony trespass in a habitation when a person is present or likely to be present. The attack allegedly occurred on Oct. 17, 2024.

Columbiana County Prosecutor Vito Abruzzino said previously that the defendant hit the woman “severely enough that we believe he was going to kill her.”

He said the defendant trespassed on the property and used a wooden object to hit the woman over the head.

When police arrived at the property, Abruzzino said officers found all the burners on the stove on, wide open, leading to the attempted arson charges. The second-degree felony count involved the risk of harm to the woman and the third-degree felony count involved the possible risk to the home.

In an unrelated case, Stacy was sentenced in January to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of nonsupport of dependents, a fifth-degree felony, for failing to pay child support for three children from July 2, 2021 to July 2, 2023..

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