Although the chief witness against her admitted smoking marijuana before coming to Sessions Court to testify, a 47-year-old woman was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday for attempted first-degree murder.
Brenda Louis Cosby of North Hawthorne Street is charged with stabbing Anthony Brown in the nose and mouth on March 4, during an altercation in a good time house located at 1206 Sheridan Ave.
Mr. Brown, who required five stitches to close the wound, testified that he smoked marijuana prior to the stabbing incident, and again Tuesday before coming to court.
"I love it!" he told the court during rambling, sometimes incomprehensible testimony. "Everybody loves it!"
He said he was dropped off at the good time house around 10 p.m. on March 4, and Ms. Cosby got there about an hour later.
He was sitting on the couch when she came in, he said. "She was tripping . . . yelling 'Get out' . . . I knew something was going to come out of it."
He vehemently denied having an altercation with Ms. Cosby, or even touching her.
"I don't want your client," he told defense attorney Cris Helton during cross examination. "I don't want your client . . . I just kind of killed her with kindness."
"When was the last time you smoked marijuana?" attorney Helton asked.
"Objection, your honor!" Brown responded.
Ordered to answer the question, he said he smoked some before coming to court that morning.
Despite his disjointed testimony, the court did not lower Ms. Cosby's $50,000 bail since she has a criminal history dating back to 1989 when she pleaded guilty to possession of crack cocaine.
Over the past two decades she has also pleaded guilty to a variety of other crimes, including multiple charges of assault and aggravated assault.