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July 24, 1917
Mr. Sam Wicks being sworn says;
This morning Mrs. Dee Bolt came
to the field where I was hoeing
and called me and said W.R. Burdette
had shot Mr. D.D. Stoddard. I
went to Mr. Stoddard and he was
dead when I got there. When I
got there Mr. Stoddard was about
25 yards from the road I did not
see any pistol, knife or any other
weapon. I left the body before
the coroner got there. When I left
I didn not see any weapon. When
I got to the body Mack Thomason
was there and I left him there
and went for Will Stoddard. When
I got back to the body there was
a gun there. I did not see any
knife at all. on my return to the
body W.W. Cook was there.
Sam Wicks his X mark

W.W. Cook being sworn says;
This morning Robert Burdette
came to my field and called me
and said he had shot Mr. Davie.
He said "I am not going to run."
He gave me his gun and we went
to where Mr. Stoddard was. Robert
Burdette was crying and said "Here
take my gun." I carried the gun
down there and set it down or
layed it down some few feet
from the body. The gun was double-
barrel. Witness examining gun
that was found says it was the
gun Burdette gave him. There was
no other gun there that I saw. Did
not see any weapon around Mr.
Stoddard. There were four or five
people present when I got to the body.
W.W. Cook.