Tetsimony finishes in one-day trial

All testimony has been completed in a trial in which a young Walhalla area resident is accused of having distributed methamphetamine to an informant working on behalf of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office. It’s the case of South Carolina v. Bowdy Crowe-Key. From the prosecution side, the case included a video and the testimonies of the informant and a laboratory chemical analyst. The defense offered no witnesses, so tomorrow the attorneys make their final arguments, the jury receives instructions from the judge before retiring to their room to deliberate. Before sending the jury home for the day, Judge Maddox told the jury they are to draw no inference—one way or the other—from the decision that Crowe-Key made to not testify in his defense.