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Alma Begged Her Mother to Confession
Alma Petty was washing her face and neck at the kitchen sink when Smith appeared with a butcher knife feeling, don't wash that damn neck, I'll cut it off. Alma managed to grab his right arm, which held the knife and hold it away from her. The defense called the doctor who treated Janie Petty in her final days to the stand,. He testified that Alma begged her mother repeatedly to go to confession as her life neared its end. So Alma said that she had begged her mother to confess when it became apparent that she might die of pneumonia. She stated that she was worried about her mother's soul and that this is what drove her to confide in Reverend Pard