FIRST WITNESS: Mr. Fred Coker, duly sworn, testified as follows: I am a policeman employed in Cheraw on the night shift. . . Between 10:30 and 11. I called Dr. Hood's office and went out there to investigate what the trouble was. I found this man, Willie Hampton, sitting in a car with a bunch of colored fellows and they went with him in the car to Dr. Hook. So he doctored the trouble up and we took him in and asked one of the people who did the cutting and they said Willie's wife and I asked Mr. Carl Watson to go with me down on front street to Willie Hampton's house . . . There was a woman on the porch and I asked her if that was where Willie Hampton lived and then a woman came out and said I am Willie's wife and as we were on the sidewalk I went to her and arrested her and asked for the knife . We found the knife all right and got both. She said this is mine and I want you to get his. Then she told me, he cut me too. Then she went into the house and got his knife off the mantel. His knife was closed; so was hers. . . I asked her what caused the trouble. She said she lay on the bed and was smoking a cigarette and he asked her to move over. She told him to wait until she got through smoking. He shoved her over on the bed; seemed that was when he cut her and started the trouble. That was all. . . She was pretty well soaked with blood. She had to hold the coat around her to keep from getting blood on the car.
THIRD WITNESS: Willie Mae Hampton, duly sworn, testified as follows: That night I was in bed and Willie came in and took off his shoes and sat on the side of the bed. I felt something sting me in my shoulder, so I tried to get loose but couldn't get loose from him and got out of bed then and there was a knife on the mantel and I couldn't get out with the bar across the door and him holding me. When I stabbed him I didn't know I had cut him. What got me loose was when my slip strap broke and that was when I reached the mantel. . . Q. Before death did he have anything to say about cutting you? A. When I went to the hospital, Willie caught hold of my hand and he said I don't feel so good and he I said I don't feel good myself and he said love I'm sorry and I told him I was sorry it happened, too. . .