Man gets 10-year sentence after two bar-fight stabbings

COLUMBUS - A Harris County man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stabbing a man during a bar fight while on bond for stabbing a man during an earlier bar fight. <br> <br> Billy J. Collier, 55, was convicted on two counts of aggravated assault after a four-day trial. Superior Court Judge John D. Allen sentenced him on Friday. <br> <br> District Attorney Gray Conger presented evidence that Collier was drunk on last August at the Hot Wings Express in Bibb City when a brawl broke out and Collier wound up stabbing a man with a lock-blade knife. <br> <br> Free on $35,000 bond, Collier was at the Pop A Top Lounge on Nov. 8 when a fight erupted. As patron James McCoy attempted to help one of the injured men in that fight, Collier slashed McCoy with another lock-blade knife. <br> <br> Collier claimed he was acting in self-defense in each of the stabbings.