MS. LAMP: Should I call my next witness?
THE COURT: Yes.
MS. LAMP: Your Honor, the People call Willie Catt to the stand.
THE COURT: Sir, step up. Stop and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you will give in this matter will be the truth, so help you God?
MR. CATT: Yes, I do.
THE COURT: Watch your step coming up. That chair is on rollers, so be careful. The microphone is not going to make you any louder, so I want you to make sure you speak up loudly and distinctly for us. State your full name.
THE WITNESS: Willie Dean Catt.
THE COURT: Spell your first name.
THE WITNESS: W-i-l-l-i-e.
THE COURT: And Dean did you say?
THE WITNESS: Yup.
THE COURT: Spell your last name.
THE WITNESS: C-a-t-t.
THE COURT: Miss Lamp?
WILLIE
DEAN CATT
Called at 7:30 p.m. by the People, sworn by the court, testified:
DIRECT EXAMINAION
BY MS. LAMP:
Q. Mr. Catt, do you have a relationship with Jackson County Animal Control?
A. Yes, I do, ma’am.
Q. What is that?
A. I work for them, I’m a (indiscernible) person.
Q.
Okay. And did you have occasion
to do some work at the Turn Three Ranch located at
A. Yes, ma’am.
Q. And how did you come to, to do some work there?
A. My boss sent me out to go help out on the farm, water the horses.
Q. Would that be Director Kim Luce?
A. Yes, ma’am.
Q. Okay. And would that have occurred on or about March twenty-first of 2007?
A. Yes, ma’am.
Q. Okay. And was that the only day that you worked out at the farm?
A. There’s been other weekends I worked on the weekends to help.
Q. Okay. On the twenty-first of March, what were you instructed to do there at the farm?
A. Just go along and fill all the water containers up for the horses. And find some and put them out in the fields where there was no water containers for none of the horses.
Q. And approximately what time did you go out to the ranch?
A. I got my lunch around say twelve, twelve thirty and then I went after I got off lunch.
Q. Okay. And so what did you do when you arrived there at the farm?
A. I walked around like Mrs. Wheaton asked me to and get the buckets, put them in the field for the horses and filled them up and that’s what I did.
Q. Was Officer Wheaton there when you arrived?
A. No, ma’am.
Q. Oh. So how did you receive the instruction from her to…
A. I went out there because she was telling me what to do.
Q. Okay. And so what did you do all day?
A. Watered the horses.
Q. Okay. And what was the horses’ response to your watering?
A. They was all right there, water, drinking the water as quick as more than what I could fill them up.
Q. Okay. And did you work on that all day long?
A. All day long from the time I got there until the time I left.
Q. Okay. And was there an incident where you had accidentally overflowed a stall?
A. Yes, ma’am.
Q. Can you describe how that occurred?
A. Yes, ma’am. I filled one of the containers up in front of two studs and then I went out in the field looking for more to fill the water, for the horses to fill more buckets up and then Miss Chapin yelled my name telling me that it was overflowing so I ran and grabbed the hose, kinked the hose and grabbed it, then filled up more water buckets, so I had accidentally forgotten it for a few, about a couple seconds.
MS. LAMP: Okay. Nothing further. Thank you.
THE COURT: Okay, Mr. Catt. Mr. Dungan may have some questions for you.
MR. DUNGAN: What is this rebuttal of? No questions. But I thought we were doing rebuttal.
THE COURT: I think we did. It was relevant to Chaltry’s testimony I believe where he was saying he was overflowing all the buckets, didn’t know what he was doing, et cetera. Whether it means much, I don’t know. Thank you, Mr. Catt. You’re excused. Watch your step going down. May he be excused, Miss Lamp?
MS. LAMP: Yes, Your Honor, we’d ask that he be excused and I believe Officer Wheaton will be able to let you out of the building.
(At 7:33 p.m. witness excused)