Opinion ID: 1136073
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Defendant's exclamations as to his intent to kill Carolyn Grayson

Text: In early December 1981, Grayson's neighbor, Tommie Garcia, observed an altercation between defendant and Grayson. Garcia testified: Well, Troy was hitting Carolyn with a tire iron, and she was under the truck when I came out, under my boyfriend's truck. And she was way underneath, and he was hitting her, and she kept screaming at him, you know, `Troy'  `she kept saying, `I won't hurt you, Troy, I won't do anything to hurt you, Troy, leave me alone, I won't say anything.' And Troy kept trying to get her out. He'd move this way, and she'd go the other way, he'd go the other way, she'd move the other way, and Tanya was also out there. Some of the neighbors. And he kept saying, he says, `I'm going to kill that fucking bitch.' He said that. And he said that to Tanya. And I was right behind there, I was looking at everything. On approximately December 16, 1981, defendant and his brother Marlow had a discussion concerning Grayson. Marlow's testimony (adduced at the preliminary hearing and read at defendant's trial) was that defendant told him: I gotta get rid of the bitch because she's gonna send me to the gas chamber.