Joseph MacIntyre, 38, of 15 Aray Gardens, Oban, was fined £200 and ordered to pay £200 compensation to a police constable when he appeared before Oban Sheriff Court last week.
MacIntyre was found guilty of assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty by lunging at him, seizing hold of him by his clothing and struggling violently with the oficer, to his injury. The oficer sustained soft tissue injuries to his hand in the incident at Oban Police station on November 17 last year.