Q - Would you state your name and occupation for the jury?
A - John Moore, patrolman. City of West Memphis
Q - Patrolman Moore, I wanna direct your attention to May the 5th,
1993. Um, were you on duty that night?
A - Yes sir.
Q - And approximately uh, 9:25 or so did you uh, respond to Catfish Island?
A - Yes sir.
Q - Alright, and what did you find when you got there?
A - I met there with Mrs. Hobbs and her husband and I believe she had a child with her.
She stated that one of her, or that her son, Steve Branch was missing.
Q - Okay, and did you make, start an incident report about that?
A - Yes, an incident report.
Q - Alright after taking this report from her did you participate in any of the search?
A - Yes sir.
Q - Alright and what involvement did you have in doing that? What did you do?
A - Okay, I went down, down the street from Catfish Island to an area and I met with Mr. Byers and he and I searched an area off Goodwin Street.
Q - Okay. I'm going to give you this pointer and differ your attention to States exhibit 101 and ask you to point out this area that you're talking about.
A - Okay. Catfish Island would be back over this way. See here's the truck stop. Catfish Island is here, and this is where I met Mrs. Hobbs. And I left there, and went up here and went back over to this dead end street here, where i met up with Mr. Byers, and it's dark, and i believe his wife left to go get him a flashlight. He and I with my flashlight went back in this area to search for the boys and we crossed up in here and back here and all the way back to here.
Q - Okay. What were the conditions out there where you were searching?
A - There was some water there and there were a few tracks but, none of the bicycle tracks looked fresh in the area that we were at.
Q - Were there other people searching?
A - Uh, there was other people there but, there was no one out there searching while I was there.
Q - I'm not talking about that particular area but, I'm talking about, were you aware of other people searching for the kids?
A - I believe Mr. Byers said the other family members were out searching for them also.
Fogleman - Okay. I don't have any further questions at this time.
