The defendant, a Hope college football player, was alleged to have caused brain damage to another person whom he struck across the head with a baseball bat after a confrontation at the Complainant’s home. The jury acquitted the defendant of Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, Assault with Intent to Commit Great Bodily Harm Less Than Murder and convicted him of the lesser offense of Felonious Assault. The defendant was sentenced to a short term of incarceration in the local county jail.