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The deputy sheriff who testified said that the reason the third round had hit J.D.

in the top of his head was because he was bent over in pain from having sustained the first gunshot wound.

A ballistics expert also took the stand and testified that some of the shells found at the crime scene had come from Henry's weapon.

When it was the defense's turn to present its case, they called 16 witnesses to testify, including Henry's mother, who told jurors that her son had always been easily excited and frightened.

She said that growing up, he had never liked the dark and was always afraid of being left by himself.

She explained that Henry had an unusually nervous disposition and could not read well.

She detailed an incident when he was four years old where he fell down a flight of stairs, and after that, he'd never quite been the same.

He'd started to stutter and struggled academically.

After seeking advice from a family guidance service to figure out ways to help her son, his mother said she'd been told that getting him a firearm and having him spend more time with male friends would be beneficial for him.

So following that advice, she'd bought Henry a shotgun and encouraged him to go hunting with other young boys and men.

Henry's defense attorney also spent a considerable amount of time examining witnesses who described J.D.

Murphree as a trigger-happy game warden who carried extra firepower on his person, just because.

But that testimony contradicted J.D.

's widow's testimony that her husband only carried one gun on his person while at work.

The defense also claimed that J.D.

had fired at Henry and his companions first, which again contradicted testimony from previous witnesses who claimed that when J.D.

's body was found, his gun was still in its holster.

However, testimony that supported the defense's J.D.

shot first version of events came from two of the other guys who were with Henry and Robert Harder at the time of the shooting, Bill Stanley II and Bill's son, Poncho.

The Stanleys told the court that they both remembered hearing the sound of a pistol or rifle go off before any shotgun blast rang out.