A jury took just 40 minutes Tuesday to find a Puyallup man guilty of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon for attacking another golfer with a club July 13 at the Auburn Golf Course.

Nicolas Jay Shampine, 34, will be sentenced at 11 a.m. June 26 before Superior Court Judge Deborah Fleck at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. The standard sentencing range for the crime is 15 to 21 months in prison.

The trial at the RJC lasted a week. Shampine has no previous criminal convictions.

The case began with a dispute between two parties of golfers at the course that turned bloody when Shampine allegedly struck 45-year-old James Compton of Puyallup on the head with a 6 iron. The blow left Compton bleeding profusely and required his airlift to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for emergency surgery. He sustained a bruised brain, a skull fracture and a broken cheekbone in the assault. Auburn police arrested Shampine at the course without incident.

According to the report Auburn police filed with court papers, at about 3 p.m. that day, members of Compton’s party complained to the course marshal that Shampine’s party just ahead of them was moving too slowly. The complaint angered Shampine’s brother, Greg, who allegedly turned around and began yelling at Compton’s party for being too loud and threatened to “kick their ass” if they didn’t shut up.

According to the police report, the parties began to jaw at each other, provoking a shoving match between Compton and Greg Shampine, with two of Compton’s party surrounding Greg Shampine during the shoving. To protect his brother, Nicholas Shampine later told police, he charged Compton at this point with his golf club and swung it at him, hitting him above the eyes with great force and knocking him down. Members of Compton’s party told police that even as Compton lay on the ground, Shampine threatened to kill all of them and their families if they messed with him.

Officers found Compton sitting on the 14th green, bleeding profusely from the head and vomiting as a friend applied direct pressure with a blood-soaked bandage. Officers observed that the lower third of the club’s shaft was bent, indicating the force that had gone into the blow.

According to the court records, Nicholas allegedly told police, “You are probably going to arrest me. I’m the one that hit him with the club. I don’t have any weapons on me.”

Nicholas Shampine also told police his group had been waiting for the party in front of them.