A man who stabbed a friend in the chest during a fishing trip has been jailed for 15 months.
Robert Edwards attacked William McNally after a row about dogs broke out in the back of a van.
The 52-year-old was found guilty by a majority verdict of assault causing injury and permanent disfigurement after a trial at Oban Sheriff Court.
Sentence was deferred until yesterday for reports.
Edwards, of 34 Heriot Avenue, Paisley, stabbed William McNally, 26, in a lay-by on the road between Portsonachan and Ford, by Loch Awe, early on April 19.
Mr McNally suffered a wound almost an inch deep from Edwards’s sheath knife.
He had been camping and fishing with Mr McNally and his father, Samuel McNally, both also from Paisley.
The three spent the day drinking beer and continued drinking and smoking cannabis later that night in their van before an argument flared about one of the McNallys’ two dogs.
They accused Edwards of poking the animal and when William McNally went to the back of the van to remove it, Edwards threw a chair at him, then jumped out and stabbed him.
Edwards claimed he had been subjected to a vicious attack by the McNallys and feared he was going to die.
He told the jury at his trial he was “terrified” the dogs might be used to attack him.
He said pulled his knife out as the McNallys came towards him, and his arm went up to William’s chest.
Edwards claimed: “I never intentionally went to stab anybody.”
After the jury’s guilty verdict Sheriff Ruth Anderson had warned Edwards he was facing a custodial sentence.
Yesterday she told him: “As I indicated at the end of your trial, the most likely disposal was custody. I see nothing in this report to make me change my mind.”
Edwards’s agent, solicitor Edward Thornton, said: “Although it was an alleged fishing trip a fair amount of time was spent drinking and some drugs were consumed during the course of the weekend.
“Matters simply deteriorated as they unfortunately do when drugs and alcohol are consumed.”
He added: “It was totally an unpremeditated and unexpected incident.”
