State v. Kraker

ANDREASEN, Justice.

Leonard Kraker was charged with ten counts of simple assault in violation of Iowa Code sections 708.1 and 708.2(4) (1989). A jury found him guilty on five counts and not guilty on the remaining five counts. Magistrate Jeffrey P. Myers entered judgments of conviction upon the jury’s guilty verdicts. Kraker appealed. District Judge Richard E. Vipond affirmed the judgments. We granted Kraker’s application for discretionary review. See Iowa R.Crim.P. 54(7). Finding no error, we affirm.

I. Background.

A criminal complaint accused sixty-three-year-old Kraker of assaulting his…