MEMPHIS, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- An assault case recently lodged against country-rock singer Hank Williams Jr. has been dismissed and erased from the Shelby County, Tenn., court's records.
Williams was accused of assault in March 2006 by cocktail waitress Holly Hornbeak, who works at The Peabody, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported.
Hornbeak said Williams spilled drinks, yelled obscenities and put her in a forearm chokehold at the lobby bar.
The case was sent to a Shelby County grand jury in September, but it reportedly no longer exists in court records and apparently has been completely erased.
District Attorney General Bill Gibbons announced that the case had been dismissed Friday.
"We didn't feel we had a case we could prove," he said.
It was not announced whether Hornbeak wanted the case dropped or if a financial settlement was reached, but a spokesman for Williams said that a private attorney hired by Hornbeak's parents wanted to settle the case for "an outlandish amount of money."
