A Carter County man will serve more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to an August 2016 assault that sent an elderly man to the hospital.

On Tuesday, Jose Antonio Mayse, 28, of Elizabethton, appeared in Carter County Criminal Court before Judge Lisa Rice to be sentenced in connection with guilty pleas he entered in two separate cases.

In the first case, Mayse entered a guilty plea to a charge of aggravated assault while a charge of domestic assault was dismissed as part of the plea agreement.

Rice sentenced Mayse to serve four years and six months in the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Mayse must also pay a $50 fine and court costs and per the agreement must pay restitution to the victim for medical bills and personal injuries.

The aggravated assault charge stems from an investigation by the Elizabethton Police Department into an assault which occurred at a city home.

According to court documents, shortly after 11 p.m. on Aug. 4, EPD Cpl. Matthew Taylor responded to a home on South Watauga Avenue after 911 received a call reporting an assault at that home. Upon his arrival at the residence, Taylor said he observed a 91-year-old man who was bleeding heavily from his nose and mouth and also saw a trail of blood on the front porch of the home.

Due to the man’s injuries, Taylor said he then spoke with the man’s daughter. The woman told Taylor that her fiancé, whom she identified as Mayse, had been at the home and was intoxicated.

“(The woman), who is pregnant, advised that Mayse attempted to attack her, (her father) then attempted to intervene,” Taylor said. “Mayse then shoved (the elderly man) to the ground. Mayse then kicked (him) in the face with his boot. Mayse then fled the scene.”

The Carter County Rescue Squad transported the 91-year-old man to a local hospital for treatment.

The second case Mayse entered a guilty plea to charges of auto burglary, theft under $1,000, and unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

Rice sentenced Mayse to serve four years and six months in prison for the unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon charge. She sentenced him to two years in prison for the auto burglary charge and 11 months 29 days on the theft charge.

The charges in that case stem from an investigation by the EPD after a woman reported to officers Mayse had broken into her vehicle and stolen a firearm.

Those sentences will run concurrently with each other and also concurrently with the sentence for the aggravated assault conviction. Mayse is currently serving a four-year prison sentence in connection with two convictions for aggravated assault in 2012. Mayse originally received probation in that case, but after two convictions for violating the terms of his probation, Rice ordered Mayse to serve that sentence during a court appearance in May.

The new sentences Mayse was ordered to serve will be consecutive to the four-year sentence he was ordered to serve in May, giving him a total effective sentence of eight years and six months in the three cases.