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standing on the trail and Mr. Selvage was behind the tree where Mr. Gray’s body was found.
The experts, he said, found no trauma to the internal organs consistent with the mutilation which would be expected with a high-velocity round such as the one Mr. Selvage fired.
“And I can’t get beyond the question of how the powder — which was readily discernible — got into the wound.”
“If he was shot,” Mr. Fletcher concluded, “it was by someone who walked up next to him and pulled the trigger . . . the court didn’t get into Ricky Doyle Gray’s reputation in Page County . . . The only reasonable way — was that somebody walked up and popped him with a pistol or a low-velocity rifle.
“The shame is that officials saw an incident, took the circumstantial evidence and brought a charge based on that... Jim Bankston was doing his job
“I can’t get over the hard evidence: the heavy, mushroom bullet, no evidence of mutilation of organs, a sht exit wound . . . There are so many possibilities about what happened that would be consistent with the powder evidence — all are inconsistent with Jim Selvage shooting Ricky Doyle Gray.
“He stated that he felt the arm, it was cool — sure, it’s not much. Nobody could explain why Mr. Price didn’t hear the first shot . . . something woke Jim Selvage up about 3:30 . . . Sam Shafer heard another shot — he couldn’t tell the calibre.
“This was not reckless shooting —this was a suicide or a murder.” It’s too bad the clothes weren’t tested, Mr. Fletcher said. “I don’t know what happened . . . but there has been enough evidence that it was not Mr. Selvage.”
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