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bat. Mr. Brown said that he then saw the man who had hit him in the face, and that man was now holding a revolver. “It was the defendant,” he claimed. He said that he was only six feet away from Mr. Robinson, who was outside the door. Mr. Brown then closed and locked the door and asked Mr. Carter to call the police.
He said that he then heard someone hit the door with a baseball bat, then heard shots, which came from the outside. “I noticed that Mr. Freeman was bleeding, and saw an entry wound on his arm,” said Mr. Brown.
Moses Jones testified that he went to the Pine Knot Inn that night because there was a party going on. “When I got there, there were fights going on outside. People were going in and out of the bathroom window; I went in too. Then I heard shots and started going out. I saw him take the last shot, then he took off and got in a car,” said Mr. Jones, speaking of the defendant.
Mr. Jones claimed that he and the defendant had had a fight five or six months before the incident at the Pine Knot Inn. In this fight, Mr. Bradley stated later, Mr. Jones had “had his clock cleaned.”
Walter Freeman, the man who was shot, testified that he did not see who had fired the shot.
Before calling his first witness to the stand, assistant public defender Roy Bradley argued that without the testimony of Moses Jones, the commonwealth had no case. He said, “He was already prejudiced against the defendant. He probably would not mind seeing the defendant in jail.”
The defendant testified next. He said that he and two friends, in two different cars, arrived at the Pine Knot Inn around 11 p.m. According to him, a fight broke out between some girls that he and his friends
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