But they were not familiar to the jurors.  They listened with an interest that was obvious to Terry Hadley.  Williams was a convincing witness,  Hadley thought, and this jury believed him.

Eagan ended his questioning after more than an hour of testimony. After a short recess, with the jury still out, Hadley put Williams's impounded clothes into evidence.  Eagan asked whether the defense had any results from its late tests of the clothes.  Hadley said that he had been told only that tests for blood were negative.  But results were not yet available for the gunshot residue test on the pants pocket.

The clothes were marked in evidence, and Hadley got his last chance to question Edward Williams.

Hadley began with inconsistencies on what seemed to be minor points; whether the paper bag containing the two RG pistols was open when he got it from Frank Smith and delivered it to Eunice, whether he quit work at 4:00 or 4:30 on Christmas Eve.  Hadley's questioning was crisp and pointed, but not as aggressive as it might have been.  He was aware of the six black jurors, whose sympathies he needed.  He would lose any benefit if he was perceived as trying to trick or badger Williams.

Williams denied speaking to anyone that evening when he left his apartment and drove to meet Zeigler.  He said that "it wasn't dark, quite dark" when he drove from the apartment complex, which is less than two miles from Temple Grove Drive.  "The sun was down, but it wasn't dark as yet...The daylight didn't darken yet.  "He said that the truck he drove that night had a carburetor problem that sometimes caused it to stall.

Hadley pressed him on what he saw at the store, when he claimed that Zeigler left his truck and went in the front door carrying a bag.

Q: (HADLEY): Did Mr. Zeigler walk through the light of your truck when he got out?

A: (WILLIAMS): He walk around the front of the car, yeah.

Q: Did you see any blood on his shirt or anything?

A: I wasn't paying no attention.

Q: Did you see the color of the bag when he walked in front of your headlights?

 A: I didn't pay no attention.

Q: Did you see any blood on his face when he walked in your headlights?

A: I didn't pay no attention.  I didn't see no blood; I didn't pay no attention.

Williams repeated what he had said at his first deposition, that at Mary Stewart's house he had talked to nobody on the telephone.  He said that after Zeigler clicked the gun at him, he ran out and tried the back gate of the store, and that the gate was locked in place.  He said that the telephone at the Kentucky