William Marshall Johnson, 50, of Austin was sentenced on Thursday in Mower County District Court to 21 months in the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud for felony domestic assault.

Judge Jeffrey Kritzer issued the sentence.

Johnson was arrested July 10 after reporting the victim had assaulted him. The court complaint states Johnson said the victim went through his phone while he was asleep and he was awakened by her punching him in the face. He also claimed she took his cell phone and wallet. An officer photographed scratches to Johnson’s face.

One of the responding officers was dispatched an hour later to Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin to meet with the victim, who had a bandage over her left eye after receiving stitches. When asked about the assault, she said she went outside to get a cigarette from her vehicle and noticed a glass pipe in the center console. When she confronted Johnson about it, he got upset and told her to “stop trying to start a fight.”

She then mentioned text messages he had sent to other women and Johnson started swearing at the woman’s daughter, which resulted in her intervening and pushing Johnson. He then punched her two to three times, causing the cut above her left eyebrow. She said she grabbed a towel to stop the bleeding and fled the residence with her daughter.

The complaint also states officers returned to the residence and found what appeared to be fresh blood on the bedroom floor, a glass drug pipe in the trash container, and Johnson’s cell phone. They found his wallet in his back right pocket when they searched him.

A review of Johnson’s criminal history shows several prior convictions for assault.