A Gainesville man stepping outside of a Lee Land Road home encountered his girlfriend’s ex and was allegedly stabbed in the legs multiple times, according to a Hall County Sheriff’s Office deputy.

Investigator Mark Mason testified Friday morning in Magistrate Court in the case of Berry Shane Dorsey, 48, of Alto. He is charged with aggravated battery for allegedly stabbing James Smiley, 23, on July 26.

The initial call, Mason said, to Lee Land Road was in reference to an injured person from a lawn mower accident.

“When (emergency crews) arrived on scene, they realized that the injuries sustained were not due to a lawn mower, so law enforcement was called,” Mason said, as deputies arrived on scene around 1:30 p.m.

The injuries Smiley had, the deputy said, “looked more indicative of a knife wound.”

Mason later found that Smiley had stepped out of the house for a cigarette.

“Berry Shane Dorsey comes around the corner charging him with a knife from outside. At that point, Mr. Smiley backs up trying to get back into the house,” Mason said. “(Smiley) trips over a small water pipe that’s right next to the door.”

Dorsey then allegedly stabbed Smiley, Mason said, with the knife going in the top of the calf and grazing a bone.

“When Mr. Smiley pulled his leg back, it severed 70 percent of his calf and slit an artery in his leg,” the deputy said.

Smiley and others begged for the stabbing to stop, Mason said, when the witnesses told authorities Dorsey brandished a knife and threatened violence on anyone that told.

Smiley was transported to Northeast Georgia Medical Center with life-threatening lacerations to his legs. He suffered stab wounds in the leg and elbow, Mason said.

“Mr. Dorsey apparently had called one of the victims ... and stated he was going to go to the hospital and finish the job,” Mason said.

The alleged threat, the deputy said, caused them to bring extra security to the hospital and move the patient to a secured floor.

Dorsey’s public defender Walker Rick focused his questioning on what witnesses were able to see the alleged incident at different points from the testimony. The only people that saw the initial altercation, Mason said, were Dorsey and Smiley.

Following the end of Mason’s testimony, Rick argued for the dismissal of a first-degree burglary charge.

“The testimony basically says some sort of altercation started outside and carried into the home,” Rick said.

Magistrate Court Judge Margaret Gregory bound all charges — two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of terroristic threats, aggravated battery and first-degree burglary — on to Superior Court.