The irony of this case is that the victim was killed by his own gun, a legally-owned gun no less. Bobo and James did indeed enter Mr. Nesbitt's drugstore with the express intention of robbing him, but they didn't brandish a weapon, or rather didn't get the chance to because Mr. Nesbitt drew his gun first.
In the ensuing melee, the gun went off and Mr. Nesbitt was killed. Even though Bobo and James didn't intend to kill him, the law still regards it as an act of felony murder, for which they are both charged. In an attempt to save his own skin, Bobo throws James under the bus when he takes the witness stand, insisting that the gun's going off was no accident, and that James said that Bobo had to shoot Mr. Nesbitt, otherwise the old man would beat him up.
On December 22nd, James King and Richard "Bobo" Evans entered a drugstore owned by an immigrant named Alguinaldo Nesbitt to carry out a robbery. During the robbery, Alguinaldo Nesbitt took out his pistol and the two men wrestled the gun from Nesbitt's hand. It is not clear who actually shot Mr. Nesbitt, but the prosecution knows that Alguinaldo Nesbitt's gun was used in the shooting. When Richard "Bobo" Evans testifies in order to receive a plea deal from the State, he says that James King wrestled the gun off of Nesbitt and shot him. The investigators also testify that Mr. Nesbitt legally owned the gun and used it as protection for his store. At the end of the murder trial, James King is sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and Steve Harmon is found not guilty for the robbery and murder of Alguinaldo Nesbitt.
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