with a pocket knife outside a Hamilton bar pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

George Joell, 37, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to nine months in prison.

Sgt. Rex Osborne, prosecuting, said that last October 25 at about 3.30 a.m., Joell and two others not before the court attacked Melven Stevens in the parking lot across from the Swinging Doors bar on Court Street.

"They punched, kicked and slashed him with a pocket knife'', Sgt. Osborne said. "They also struck him over the head with a concrete block. He managed to stagger away and the three men ran off along Court Street.'' Sgt. Osborne said Stevens was helped by a passerby who took him to the Police Station to report the matter. He was then taken to the hospital for treatment.

"He received abrasions on his right cheek, temple and face including lacerations to the nose which had to be stitched,'' Sgt. Osborne said.

Magistrate the Wor. John Judge sentenced Joell to nine months in prison which he ordered to run concurrently with a four-year prison term he is currently serving for robbery.