[OH] Officer Cutts Trial, Day 6 - Cutts appearing to weep

February 11, 2008

CANTON, Ohio -- A former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover testified Monday he swung his elbow at her when she wouldn't let him leave her home.

Sobbing on the witness stand, Bobby Cutts Jr. said he was at Jessie Davis' home to pick up his son before 6 a.m. and was telling her to hurry. She was nine months' pregnant with Cutts' child when she died last June.

When she didn't move quicker to get her son ready, he started to leave. She stopped him and he pointed his finger at her face. He said she bit it.

Cutts tried to leave again. Beginning to cry, Cutts said Davis grabbed his arm and told him he couldn't. He said he pulled his arm away and threw his elbow back.

He told jurors it landed in her throat area and she fell hard.

"I didn't mean to hurt her," Cutts sobbed as he clutched at a handful of white tissues.

Cutts said nine days after she died he led authorities to her body.

"I wanted to prove I didn't do what they were saying -- aggravated murder," Cutts said. "I didn't try to kill anyone."

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