utc there was is no proof of who fired one single shot that's the fact paterson testified he fired one single shot paterson also changed his statements to police on three separate ocassions explaining where he was and what he was doing at the time he fired one single shot purrum's opinion view excuse to counteract this fact is merely in purrum's own hypothetical imagination fact witnesses testified seeing ryan recoil his rifle and smoke coming from the barrel of his rifle in fact that type of rifle had no recoil and it contained smokeless cartridges the only person it claim this was opas it is of course not true not true two of the fourteen eyewitnesses testified seeing ryan recoil his rifle and two eyewitnesses testified seeing smoke coming from the barrel of his rifle only four of the fourteen eyewitnesses testified seeing ryan aim his rifle each of the fourteen eyewitnesses testified different accounts inconsistencies of what they actually saw that's the fact purrum's opinion view excuse to counteract this fact is merely in purrum's own hypothetical imagination august