Jury verdict guilty … and sentenced follows

An Oconee jury today found Damian Bennett guilty of assault and battery second degree.  The judge’s sentence spares Bennett from prison.  A court officer reports Judge McIntosh handed down the following sentence:  18 months in prison, suspended to five years’ probation.  Bennett, who defended himself without an attorney, went on trial yesterday accused of assault and battery in a West Union supermarket parking lot last January.