Man Punished For Machete Incident

The man who brought a machete into a traffic argument in May learned his punishment on Tuesday. 47 year old, James Lee Bond Jr. of Hardy pleaded no contest in October to a charge of malicious wounding and other related offenses stemming from the dispute with two men in a shopping center when he reportedly grabbed a machete from his pickup truck and cut the man who had put him in a headlock. A Franklin County judge ordered Bond to serve 12 months in a detention and diversion center; He was sentenced to slightly more than 11 years in suspended time.