I believe the weapon referred to in the charges was the wine bottle. As for choosing different women, George has his options limited by his inability to earn a living and just live a normal life. He needs to go join the French Foreign Legion or something. Really go back to square one.
He’d be smart to find a small town in the middle of nowhere and simply be quiet for a year or two.
There are places that would accept him. Who knows, he might find a woman who would simply be kind to him.
I live in the middle of “the big nothing”, it has some advantages. Sanity is one.