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Lacy Street murder trial under way
Published October 1, 2008
MONROE — The murder trial of Hulet Williams, charged with the April 2007 murder of Kenny Ewing, began Tuesday.
“You are here today because the defendant killed Kenny Ewing,” Walton County Assistant District Attorney Eric Crawford said in his opening statement. “Kenny Ewing was killed without provocation. Kenny Ewing was killed in cold blood.”
Ewing’s body was found with an apparent stab wound to the chest around 1:42 a.m. on April 27, 2007 at 727-B Lacy St. in Monroe. Ewing and Williams – also known as Sonny Norman – had gotten into an altercation earlier in the day, according to both legal counsels. And both sides agree Williams returned later and allegedly brandished a screwdriver, a supposed threat to Ewing who told Williams he had no more problems with the defendant.
What is a matter of contention, though, is if Williams returned a third time.
No murder weapon was ever recovered from the scene and Teri Smith, with the public defender’s office, in her opening statement cast doubt onto what exactly happened that night, Williams’ mental capacity at the time of his confession as a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and the role witness Caroline Camp allegedly had to play in the whole ordeal.
“She hid a knife from the police inside her,” Smith said of Camp, who also allegedly had a confrontation with Ewing the same day he was murdered.
The public defender also challenged the amount of blood found on the shoes Williams was allegedly wearing the night of the incident and the fact no blood was found on the shirt or pants he was supposedly wearing when he killed Ewing.
“You are just not going to be able to say beyond a reasonable doubt Sonny committed this murder,” Smith said.
Williams was indicted on charges of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. He allegedly told officers while being interviewed after the crime that he stabbed Ewing but did not mean to kill him.
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