{Wayne, West Virginia}...Both sides have rested in the murder trial of 53 year old Clinton Douglas Skeens. The jury will return for instructions and closing arguments Thursday. Skeens took the witness stand Wednesday after being charged with the 2010 stabbing death of his former Wayne High School football coach, 73 year old Jess Scott Jarrell. At no time during his testimony, did Skeens deny killing Jarrell, but he said he had no other choice, at the time, because of the battle between righteousness and evil that was going on constantly in his mind. On his fourth trip to Wayne, he knocked on Jarrell's door and Jarrell let him in. Skeens said he told Jarrell he believed he worked for the CIA and was trying to hurt his family so he was going to have to kill him. Skeens has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but testimony this week has indicated he had been off of his medications for at least eight months when he walked in the December snow from Huntington to Wayne to look for Coach Jarrell. Dr. Bobby Miller, a well known psychiatrist in the Huntington area who has examined Skeens since Jarrell's murder, testified he first thought Skeens was exaggerating his illness, but he has changed his thoughts now that Skeens is on regular medication. Other doctors have not agreed with that diagnosis. Dr. Miller said Skeens went to Jarrell's on a mission to do bodily harm and remove Jarrell as a threat.
