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The defense also managed to track down another hunter who'd been in the area at the time of the crime.

And he testified that he also remembered hearing a pistol or rifle go off before several shotgun blasts, as well as what he believed was someone saying, quote, Bill, I think I shot someone, end quote.

On the fourth day of the trial, Henry himself took the witness stand in his own defense and told the court that he'd never intended to kill JD.

He admitted to having interacted with the game warden in the past and said that was one of the reasons he was so afraid of him on the day of the shooting.

Henry claimed that JD had issued a stern warning to him about a year before the shooting, and at that time, JD had said something to the effect of, "'He'd take Henry to jail if he caught him in the woods again.'"

Henry told jurors that when he encountered JD on the day of the murder, he'd been retrieving two ducks he shot.

And when he went to pick them up, he heard JD's voice say, quote, now I've got you, end quote.

So instinctively, Henry said he ran from JD, and that's when he heard JD shoot in his direction with a pistol.

Startled by the realization that JD was shooting at him, Henry said he tripped and fell twice and ultimately landed in a ditch.

When he turned around, he saw JD getting closer to him, and that's when he said he panicked and shot at the game warden.

When questioned about how many times he fired his own gun, Henry stated he didn't have any memories of doing so.

When the trial came to an end on January 14th, 1966, jurors found Henry guilty of murder but only sentenced him to two years in prison.

After that, I couldn't find much else about what happened to Henry.

One of J.D.

's friends and the minister of the Murphrees' local church wrote in an online article that after Henry got out of prison, he visited him at church and apologized for killing J.D.

According to the minister, Henry claimed that he'd become a Christian while incarcerated and was trying to live a better life.

The minister said the young man cried in front of him and asked if he'd preside over his wedding ceremony the following week.

which the minister agreed to.

After that, though, he never saw Henry again.

Online records show that Henry eventually died in October 1999 at the age of 52.