COEUR d'ALENE - Stabbing victim James R. Hoglen stood up at the witness stand, pulled up his T-shirt and showed a judge the scars from four serious stab wounds to his abdomen, two of which were 4-inch-long gashes.

Then he testified about a stab wound to the center of his face that left him with severed nerves there and breathing difficulty in his nose.

At the defense table, 56-year-old James H. Kountz sat in shackles and a red-and-white striped jumpsuit, listening as Hoglen described how he received the stab wounds a month ago at a campsite the two transients had been staying at in a wooded area behind the Target retail store in Coeur d'Alene.

After Hoglen, 42, finished his story, Magistrate Eugene A. Marano bound Kountz over to 1st District Court for trial on a charge of aggravated battery. Kountz is being held on $250,000 bond at Kootenai County jail, where he has been since the stabbing incident.

During Thursday's preliminary hearing, Hoglen said he had a confrontation with a third man whom Hoglen had given $15 to make a booze run to pick up a bottle of vodka and four 24-ounce cans of Hurricane High Gravity Lager.

After the trip to the store took the man four-and-a-half hours to complete, Hoglen said he slapped a cell phone out of the man's hand upon his return and then punched him in the face a couple times. Seconds later, he testified, Kountz was coming at him with knives in both hands.

"It happened so fast I didn't see it," Hoglen recalled. He said he attempted to pick up a broken lawn chair to shield himself, but that didn't help.

He said that once he realized how badly he was wounded he staggered through the wooded area to U.S. 95, where he crossed over a couple lanes to a grassy area in the center of the highway and collapsed. He spent six days in the hospital for treatment.

The case was assigned to District Court Judge Benjamin Simpson.