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lman was armed would make it more difficult for them to convict somebody who shot him, if they would be biased against Diane Kidwell because she had armed herself with a 12-gauge shotgun before* leaving her house and if they thought a jjerson was justified in killing another in order to protect property.
Asked by the defense counsel if they owned guns and how many, prospective jurors reported enough weapons to supply a small army, ranging from handguns to high powered rifles.
Almost as soon as eight men and four women were seated, word was sent to the judge that one of the jurors was too ill to continue. Horne and attorneys John Dowd and Rodney Leffler for the defense and special prosecutor Steven Merrill came to the jury box when Clyde Johnson was unable to rise out of his chair. After rescue squad volunteers and Dr. Werner Krebser examined the juror, he was taken from the courtroom on a stretcher and transported to Warren County Hospital where he was held until the following morning.
With Johnson excused, alternate Charles Pullen was made a regular juror, joining Carolyn Jordan Brown, Maxie Clark, Donna Parson, Katherine Knuepfer, Fred Ausberry, Josef Gardiner, Eugene E8cherich, Larry Conners, Melvin Atkins, Eugene Cook and Leggett on the panel.
On the heels of opening arguments by both sides, I the prosecution opened its ■ case late in the afternoon with Dr. James Bayer, depluty chief medical examiner ! for Northern Virginia.
Bayer said that an au" topsy showed six wound paths within Spellman’s body involving the right lung, right diaphragm, liver, thoracicaorta, spine and spinal cord. “Any of those six paths could have been thfe cause of death in an unak tended individual." After being struck in the right front of the chest by the shotgun charge, Spellman could have been capable of voluntary movements “for a few minutes,” Bayer added. No other wounds except that one in the chest were found on Spellman’s body, the doctor said.
Dr. Werner Krebser arrived at the scene at approximately 9:15 a.m. and found Spellman dead on the bulldozer. He testified that the deceased was wearing two shirts and a quilted jacket: the jacket was completely
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