VIDALIA &8212; Three witnesses told a Concordia Parish judge Friday that the only person to fire a weapon the night of Kevin Wall&8217;s death was William Clay Nations.

Nations is charged with second-degree murder in the June 2004 death of Wall at the Temple Road Bridge. The trial began Thursday.

&8220;Kevin kept trying to get Clay to put the gun down because he just wanted to fight him,&8221; Bobby Goodwin said, referring to an argument going on between the two. &8220;Clay wouldn&8217;t put the gun down and said he wasn&8217;t trying to fight him, and that&8217;s when it happened.&8221;

Goodwin, 16 at the time of the incident, was asked to come to the Temple Road Bridge by Robert Smith, then 25, who wanted to fight him. Goodwin, in turn, called Wall, who followed them down to the bridge where the night&8217;s events unfolded.

Witness accounts revealed that Nations and Wall argued on Temple Road Bridge around midnight about an incident that had occurred months before.

When the argument seemed to be over Nations &8220;stepped back and started shooting,&8221; injuring several and killing Wall, witnesses said.

In the second day of the trial, Assistant District Attorney Ronnie McMillan rested the prosecution&8217;s case after his ninth witness stepped down from the stand.

Defense attorney Derrick Carson said the state had failed to prove its case.

&8220;The state failed to prove anything other than there was a shooting. None of them (the witnesses) saw it, none of them knew what was going on because they were high on pills and alcohol,&8221; Carson said. &8220;I believe a judgment of acquittal is necessary at this time.&8221;

Coroner reports could not confirm the type of weapon that killed Wall, as the bullets passed through the body.

Several pistols were confiscated after the incident, some of which were released, but the rifle that witnesses saw in Nations&8217; hands has not been recovered.

Judge Kathy Johnson, responding to Carson&8217;s request for acquittal in the case, ruled that the trial will continue, resuming at 9:30 a.m. in 7th Judicial District Court Monday.

&8220;The court rules that the state has proved that there was at least specific intent to cause bodily harm,&8221; Johnson said.

If convicted as charged, Nations faces life imprisonment with hard labor without the option of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.