Justice McCUSKEY delivered the opinion of the court:
The defendant, David Mitchell, appeals his eight-year sentence for aggravated battery (Ill.Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 38, par. 12-4(a)).
At trial, Officer Greg Piazza testified the defendant had lived with Piazza's sister, Deanna, until about a year before the offense. On April 14, 1989, Deanna married another man. After Piazza attended the wedding reception, he, his fiancee, and another woman went to a tavern....
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