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•^jf-way again and Spellman couldn’t reach him, “he had something that could.”

Dr. Werner Krebser, Culpeper veterinarian Harry Bouchard, Thomas Wayland and T. V. Williams described Spellman as having a bad reputation for violence, turbulence and pugnacity.”

In the only rebuttal witness called by the prosecution, Trooper Baines reported that Spellman’s prior criminal record consisted of a single conviction for trespassing in 1974 for which he was fined $28.

After the attorneys finished debating instructions to the jury near noon, Merrill began final arguments for the Commonwealth. Asking for a conviction on first degree murder, the special prosecutor said that the shooting of Spellman was “not a complicated case.” He maintained that the defense had thrown out a series of “red herrings and smoke screens” aimed at putting Spellman in the defendant’s place, confusing the issue and taking attention away from the time of the killing.

The two incidents testified to by Hendricks and

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