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Source: The Columbus Dispatch, OhioOct.文件倉 04--DELAWARE, Ohio -- A Delaware County judge today found former Ohio State football standout Jim Stillwagon not guilty of all charges connected with a road-rage shooting that hospitalized a man last year.Stillwagon, 64, said he felt relieved by the ruling.A civil lawsuit filed by the man he had been accused of assaulting is pending.Delaware Common Pleas Court Judge Duncan Whitney dismissed the three remaining counts of felonious assault with a firearm against Stillwagon this morning, during the third day of his trial. Whitney had dismissed a fourth count of the same charge earlier this week.Stillwagon, one of the "Super Sophs" that led the 1968 Buckeyes to a National Championship crown, had been charged with shooting at a man after a 14-mile back-and-forth chase starting near Dublin and ending in Delaware.The man, Richard Mattingly, of Geauga County in northeast Ohio, testified during the trial that he had been drinking both before and during the chase, and said he had been driving "like an idiot," following Stillwagon closely, brake-checking him, and cutting him off.Stillwagon followed Mattingly to a parking lot off Rt. 23 in Delaware and fired at存倉Mattingly's truck. Stillwagon ultimately hit Mattingly in the head with the butt of his gun. When he did, the gun fired, and a bullet grazed Mattingly's head. Mattingly checked himself out of the hospital that night.Stillwagon's lawyers argued that Mattingly used his truck as a weapon, and that Stillwagon shot at him in self-defense. Earlier this week, they asked the judge for a mistrial; today they asked that Whitney find Stillwagon not guilty because prosecutors had not proven that Stillwagon ever intended to shoot at Mattingly.Whitney agreed, saying he would lay out his reasons in court documents.At least one of the jurors who would have ruled on the case also agreed."We got a guy that shot somebody, and I guess the police have to make an example -- we can't have people running around shooting people," said Bill McKahan, who served on the jury. "But this case should never have gone to trial."Stillwagon said he intended to continue working at the company he owns with his wife and to put the criminal case behind him.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) Visit The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) at .dispatch.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存