Third, he has the opportunity.
Our witness, Mr. Lepellier, can describe in vivid detail of what happened on that day, that as they were about to take a jump from the tree together, Gene jostled the branch so that Phineas would fall to the ground, and thus be maimed or killed. Fourth, we have a witness, coach Quakenbush, to testify that Gene's character is not in the best of states, that he is quite capable of wishing Phineas maimed or as it later turned out:
dead. Fifth, and finally, we state that we have a full written confession by Mr. Forrester. If you will please turn to page 196 of the defendant's diary, you will see it stated out in the open: "I was on active duty all the time at my school. I killed my enemy there." End quote. So, as you can see, he is perfectly guilty of committing the act of voluntary manslaughter on Mr. Phineas, as we are aware that he did commit no other murders that we are know of. So, in that we find the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter, as demonstrated that he had means, motive by mental illness, opportunity as seen by Mr. Lepellier, bad character as testified by coach Quakenbush, and actually admitted to the crime. Thank you.