Donald E. Gillespie, Jr., for defendant appellant. On 31 October 1995, an altercation occurred between three inmates of the Guilford County Jail. King stated that, just before the officers arrived to break up the fight, Defendant flushed the shank down the commode in the day room. All I saw him use was a pen. All I see, it was a pen.
All pens are sharp.
I just seen a pen. Whether it was a piece of metal or a piece of anything on it, I didn't see. I seen a ink pen. King told Officer Ford that this was the type of weapon used by Defendant to stab him. King was taken to the infirmary after the altercation, where both wounds were cleaned and bandaged.