STATE v. BELL

No. 56463.

223 N.W.2d 181 (1974)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Gerald BELL and Donna Bell, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 13, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee J. Farnsworth, Denison, for appellants.

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Nancy J. Shimanek, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Thomas R. Eller, County Atty., for appellee.

Heard by MOORE, C. J., and MASON, UHLENHOPP, REYNOLDSON and McCORMICK, JJ.


REYNOLDSON, Justice.

These separately indicted defendants were jointly tried for the crime of assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury in violation of § 694.6, The Code. Following convictions on May 4, 1973, each defendant was sentenced to a term not to exceed one year in a reformatory.

Defendants Gerald and Donna Bell are husband and wife. The victim of the alleged assault was their three-year-old daughter, Kari, who has cerebral palsy.

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