Parolee who beats woman with ball bat in Harrison Twp. heads back to prison

Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

Credit: JIM NOELKER

Credit: JIM NOELKER

Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

A man on parole was ordered back to prison for beating a woman with a wooden baseball bat more than a year ago in Harrison Twp.

Mitchell Irvin Smith, 64, was sentenced Wednesday by Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge E. Gerald Parker Jr. to 3 to 4½ years in prison after he pleaded guilty Nov. 26 to two counts of felonious assault. As part of his plea, a repeat violent offender specification attached to each count — which would have added time at sentencing — was dismissed.

Smith also received credit for 166 days spent in confinement, according to a sentencing document filed Friday.

Mitchell Smith

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

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Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched Oct. 31, 2023, to the 6900 block of North Main Street on reports of an assault in progress.

Deputies found a woman covered in blood at a business in the 8300 block of North Main Street who was injured during the assault.

“The victim, a 38-year-old female, reported that the defendant had struck her with a wooden baseball bat multiple times on her head and other parts of her body,” Greg Flannagan, Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman, said previously.

At the time of the incident Smith was on parole after serving 20 years for a Butler County rape conviction. After his arrest Smith was returned to the Lorain Correctional Institution but has remained held since May in the Montgomery County Jail, according to jail and Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction records.

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