A southwestern Illinois jury has cleared a man of charges that he wrongly stabbed his son in the neck with scissors. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that a Saint Clair County jury deliberated two hours before acquitting 57-year old Charles Phillips of rural Belleville last week. He was charged with domestic battery and aggravated battery. Police responding to a reported domestic disturbance December 4th at Phillips’ home found a wounded Michael Phillips, who told them his father stabbed him during an argument. The younger Phillips was treated at a hospital and was released. During Charles Phillips’ trial, his attorneys argued that their client has an amputated leg and a disabled arm, and that he stabbed his son in self-defense after being abused for days.