Collins Case Update

After just under three hours of deliberation, a Williams County jury finds a Pioneer man not guilty on both counts of felonious assault stemming from an incident last year in an emergency room. Ricky Collins, 62, had been charged with assault following an altercation between himself and an emergency room doctor at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in February of last year. Collins maintained it was a case of self-defense and that the emergency room doctor was the aggressor, not him.