Posted February 19, 2018 12:30pm
(KNZA)--The trial for a woman accused of murdering her estranged husband in Leavenworth has been pushed back.
51-year-old Barbara Frantz, of Kansas City, Kansas, had been scheduled to go on trial March 19th. However, The Leavenworth Times reports a judge granted a request by her attorney during a hearing Friday for a continuance.
The trial was rescheduled to begin June 25th. Two weeks are to be set aside for the trial.
Frantz is charged in Leavenworth County District Court with first-degree murder.
She is accused of shooting her estranged husband, Gary, Jan. 27, 2017, in a Leavenworth parking lot.
Frantz remains in the Leavenworth County Jail.