A Cottondale man with a history of violence, especially against woman, and who is out on bond in the slaying of a woman is now back in jail after lawmen say he attacked another woman with a machete.

Charles Richard Sexton, 48, is charged with second-degree assault. Tuscaloosa authorities said Coaling police and the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office responded to the area of Beulah Drive just before 8 a.m. Friday on an assault call, said Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit Capt. Gary Hood.

When they arrived on the scene, a 33-year-old woman told them Sexton had cut her on the arm with the machete during an argument at Sexton's home. Investigators saw a laceration on the victim's arm, and took Sexton into custody without incident.

Sexton in December was charged with murder in the death of 30-year-old Jennette "Jenny" Sims Brannon. She was had been missing for several weeks until her body was discovered on Dec. 21.

Brannon was last seen about 9 p.m. on Dec. 2. She lived with her parents, who last saw her that day and last spoke with her on Dec. 4. She was last known to be in the Coaling area, and was officially reported missing on Dec. 9.

At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, Tuscaloosa police and the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit responded to an area near 10368 Beulah Lake Lane in Cottondale on a report of a deceased person, Hood said. Investigators learned Brown had been killed and that her body was in a wooded area near Sexton's home and that he was involved in her death.

Police found Brannon's body at the bottom of an embankment near Sexton's home, Hood said. Investigators interviewed Sexton and carried out a search warrant at this house. Based on evidence found in his home, and Sexton's own statements to police, a murder warrant was issued charging him with Brannon's death.

Sexton was booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail, but was released on $75,000 on Dec. 22. According to a deposition in the Brannon murder case, investigators found Brannon's body wrapped in plastic with her wrists and ankles bound. When they spoke with Sexton, Brannon was at his home and the two became involved in a physical altercation.

Sexton said Brannon sustained an injury to her head that was bleeding badly. "The defendant gave multiple stories about how the victim's head was injured," the deposition reads.

He told detectives he went to sleep after the altercation, and woke up to find Brannon dead on the floor. He then said he wrapped the victim in plastic and moved her to a trash dump behind his home.

Court records show Sexton, who lists his occupation as disabled, has been arrested multiple times for violent crimes but many of those charges were dismissed. Last year, he was indicted on a second-degree assault charge after he injured a man with a knife, records show. That case was dismissed.

In 2013, Sexton was charged with menacing after he broke into a home armed with a knife and threatened both a man and a woman. Again, that case was dismissed.

In 2010, Sexton was arrested on third-degree assault after a woman said Sexton hit her multiple times in the face. He was found guilty of a misdemeanor, and received a certificate of completion for a court-ordered anger management program.

Sexton was booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail Friday with bond set at $15,000 in the machete attack at his home. However, his bond on the previous murder charge has now been revoked.