A Lakeview woman charged with stabbing her husband with a piece of broken glass appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday asking that a no contact order be lifted so the couple can reunite.
Earlier — at the request of the husband/victim — 56-year-old Tricia Lynn Clark was given a time served sentence. According to court records, she had been in the county jail for nine months at the time the sentence was handed down.
As part of the conditions of her sentence, she was to have no contact with her husband and the victim of the stabbing.
Baxter County Circuit Court Judge John Putman questioned both Clark and her husband as to whether they would feel safe in the reunited living arrangements and both said they would. The husband said they had been married for 29 years and were together for eight years prior to that.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Baxter County sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence along Nubbin Ridge Road on Feb. 20 to investigate a report of a man being stabbed by his wife. When deputies talked to the victim, they noted blood on the right side of his neck appearing to have run down from the right side of his head.
The injury was thought to be above and to the rear of the victim’s right ear.
The victim told deputies he and his wife had been fighting off-and-on since early in the morning. He said during one confrontation, his wife had grabbed a piece of glass from a broken mirror and stabbed him in the head. The victim said aid his wife had also been punching him at various times during the day.
When Tricia Clark was questioned, she became upset when deputies told her they were investigating the reported stabbing of her husband. She is reported to have said at one point, she did not want to “prosecute” her spouse.
During the conversation, Tricia Clark said she was “done talking” and started to walk back toward the couple’s residence. She was ordered to stop but kept walking. She was subdued to an extent, but had to be “forced” into the back seat of the vehicle.
Tricia Clark was charged with 2nd degree domestic battery, resisting arrest and obstructing governmental operations.
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