(Pocahontas, IA) — A Pocahontas County District judge has suspended the 10-year sentence he gave a man for shooting a short-barreled shotgun at another person.
If Joshua J. Schmidt completes four years of probation the sentence will be dismissed.
Schmidt had entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of going armed with intent.
He was also sentenced for escaping the Pocahontas County Jail last September. He was captured after two days. When the 18-year-old Schmidt fired the weapon, he missed the target, then ran away.
