would have been at a different angle had the gun fired from his pocket or when it hit the floor. The wound was consistent with someone having stood above Dillon and shot him as he lay on the ground.
Maurice Ford and Chris Thomas, two officers from the McComb Police Department, testified that while at the hospital, Dillon stated that Frederick Cotton was responsible for the shooting.
Dillon maintained at trial that he accidentally shot himself after he dropped the gun on the floor. He claimed to have borrowed *311 the gun from Roy Lee Jackson only 30 minutes earlier. Dillon said that he was only trying to show the gun to Cotton. He also testified that the bullet entered the inside part of his leg and exited the outside.
FeliciaMcGaffney was at Cotton's house when Dillon arrived on May 19, 1992. She said that Cotton accused Dillon of stealing money, hit him with a crutch and ordered him to leave. Threatening to return, Dillon ran out of the house. Cotton originally had approximately three thousand dollars stored in the house as a result of a settlement received from a car accident. Eight or nine hundred dollars of the money was actually stolen from him one night. McGaffney also claimed there had been "bad blood" between Cotton and Detective Ashley for some time prior to this incident.
Detective Jimmy Carruth testified that the weapon recovered by Detective Ashley was a Llama .45 semi-automatic with many safety features. Carruth maintained that the combined safety features required a specific sequence of