State v. Frink

When the defendant, Harry Burke Frink, estranged from his wife, tried to take their children from the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Hirehak, in Albia, Iowa, police were called. Officer Curtis Green was wounded, and the defendant was charged by indictment with the crime of assault with intent to commit, murder. In the first trial the jury could not agree. In the second trial on May 7, 1962, the defendant was found guilty as charged, his motion for a new trial was overruled, and he was sentenced to serve an indeterminate term, not exceeding thirty years, in the State Penitentiary.

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