Friday, November 30, 1979
Knoxsah gives sketchv testimony
By MARK SPENCER
Staff Reporter
David Lee Knoxsh, 31, testified yesterday in his first-degree murder trial that he remembered little of the week after the death of Heri Wilson Houseworth.
Knoxsch is accused along with two other men of the murder of Houswour, whose battered body was discovered Aug. 7 under the Kansas River Bridge.
In response to questions from Rumsey and Craig Stancille, assistant district attorney, Krug repeatedly said he did not know who had been killed by his alleged beating of Houssia, 65.
The defendant was called to the stand by defense attorney James Rumsey as the last defense witness to testify before the defense rested its case.
RUMSEY BEGAN HIS questioning of Knoxh yesterday afternoon by asking him about his history as an alcoholic.
The defendant has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, aggravated battery and aggravated robbery.
District Judge Ralph King ended the fourth day of testimony by telling jurors that closing statements and instructions to the jury would begin at 9 a.m. today.
Knoxshall testified that he had begun drinking with his father when he was 11-years old and that he drank "everything and anything, just about every day."
Knoxash testified that he had only a vague recollection of the days Aug. 4, 5 and 6. He said he remembered drinking at Johnny's.
Tavern, 401 N. Second St., on Aug. 4 and wake up Aug. 5 in an apartment above the bar.
He did not remember beating up an old man under the bridge, he said.
The next event Knoxsah said he remembered was playing a game Aug. 6 on the South Park bandstand.
Before Krohnsk was called to the stand, Linda Jackson, a woman who said she was a friend of Krohnsk's, testified that she had been drinking frequently with Krohnsk the day before.
Carol Crossfield, a Lawrence police detective, had testified earlier that she was shot and Aug. 6 and taken him to the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center (111 E. 118 S., where
KNOXSAH TESTIFIED that he remembered talking to Crossfield, but he was not sure if it was on that day. He said he did not remember what he said to the
She said Knoxsah was drunk most of the week.
Knoxsah also testified that he did not remember learning Levi Cummings, 28, Tulsa, Okla., a co-defendant in the case
Curnings and George Mahkut, 22,
Manhattan, testified Tuesday that they
were with Knoxsah when he beat Housworth
and that they participated in the beating.
whom Knoxsh is accused of beating after allegedly beating Housworth.
BOTH MEN, charged with second-degree murder in the case, testified under an agreement with the prosecution that they were guilty of a lead plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
Rumsey also attempted to extract testimony from Knoxsab about his military service in Vietnam, but an objection from Stancille was sustained by the judge.
Earlier yesterday, Rumsey called several witnesses who testified that they had seen Housewour alive and in relatively good condition on Aug. 6.
Aarene Brooks, a chequer at Waylo. Warehouse Foods, 849 New Hampshire St., said she housed Houswirt in the store at about 11 a.m. on Aug. 6.
She testified that he was carrying a paper bag that contained several items, including a bottle of liquor, and that he did not appear to have suffered or scraped a little, but that it was.
IN THE PROCEECTION'S rebutal, Stanice called two witnesses to the stand who said they were employees of the Parks and Recreation Department.
One woman testified that she had gone to the bridge on the morning of Aug. 6 to connect some irrigation pipes and had seen Housworth sleeping.
When he awoke and turned toward her, she said she saw his left side and it appeared he had been beaten.
A second employee returned at about 5:20 p.m. and saw Housewould again, the man testified.
Under cross examination, both witnesses said they did not call an ambulance.
The employee testified that Houswour appeared to be having breathing problems and that he tried to pull himself up by grabbing a pipe but could not.
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