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Q: When [Williams] has testified that he walked into that dark store and you turned on him with a pistol and tried to kill him, to drop him there beside Charlie Mays, he is a liar?

A: I did not try to kill him, I did not pull a pistol on him, and I did not try to shoot him.

Q: Would you tell me again why you had Curtis Dunaway turn off all the lights in the store Christmas Eve?1

A: The only lights that I instructed Curtis Dunaway not to turn on were the four hanging displays, two on each side of the front door of the store.

Q: When Felton Thomas testified that you and he and Charlie Mays drove out to an orange grove and fired some pistols out the window of the car, is he a liar?

A: Mr. Eagan, I had never seen Felton Thomas before in my life until the preliminary hearing in Orlando on January the 16th.

Q: I want you to tell me, if you can, sir, how you got all the blood under the armpit of your clothing. Type A blood?

A: The only thing I can tell you is that during the fight I was grabbing everything I could grab ahold to and swinging with everything I had.  That's the only thing that I can tell you.

Q: You can't tell me how you held Perry Edwards around the neck and clubbed him with your right hand as you held him with your left?

A: No, sir, because I did not do it.

Q: Why did you use Curtis Dunaway's car to go to the liquor store?

A: Curtis Dunaway's car was there and it had to be pulled from the dirt drive between the two houses and put in the garage anyway, and Eunice and I were going to use the car that night.

Q: Didn't you tell him it had carburetor trouble and you didn't want him driving it?

A: I didn't stipulate what was wrong with the car.  It had a funny noise.  Curtis doesn't know anything about cars and he was going out of town Christmas Day.

Eagan continued, relentless: How did you get all this A Type blood under your left arm?  I have no idea, sir.  Did you ever get your hands on the derringer?  No sir, not to my knowledge.  You did not snap it twice and reload it?  No, sir, I did not.  Put those cartridges with blood on them in your desk drawer?  No sir, I did not.  Did you drive Curtis Dunaway's car to that orange grove with Felton Thomas?  No, sir, I did not.  You deny that?  I certainly do.  All you had was a

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1    This was not in evidence.