The following individuals appeared Wednesday before Judge Charles Steele in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court: 

Criminal Hearings 
Michael B. Reiser, 32, Convoy, was sentenced to a four-year prison term on a charge of felonious assault, a felony of the second degree. 
According to a Van Wert City Police Department investigation, Reiser allegedly got out of a vehicle in the 200 block of East Main Street at which time he made a racial slur and then struck the victim knocking him to the pavement where the victim suffered severe head injuries.