“Ninety-five percent women,” Jacobs Jr. answered.

“Was she demanding?” Currie asked.

“Not with most things. She watched after us,” said Jacobs Jr. “She taught us to stand up for ourselves. I remember coming home crying because a little girl kept stealing my toys. She told me ‘don't let a girl steal your toys. You gotta be strong. Be strong like my family, not weak like your father's family.’ She called Daddy's family cowards, weak.”

He also testified she intimidated the women who worked in Dr. Jacobs' office and caused a constant turnover among the staff.

He said his mother had him arrested once because she thought he threatened to kill her.

During his testimony, at that point, Jacobs Jr. looked squarely at his mother and asked, “As many times as you have threatened to kill him, how could you say that about me?”

Turning to Currie he said, “She said she was going to kill him, then take his guts and put them on his parents’ doorsteps while they were still alive.”

Scott Jacobs later testified to that threat and, adding that she once threatened to kill their father and “... put his guts on his parents' graves.”

The weekend prior to the fatal shooting, Jacobs Jr. said his parents visited him and his family in Atlanta and stayed in a motel together.

“They sat side-by-side and shared a bowl of clam chowder, spent the weekend at the motel, they were fine,” he said. “After they ate, she asked him to take her to the motel and then he came back and watched a Braves game with me.”

During cross examination, defense attorney John Thigpen asked why his father remarried her after their first divorce, which was in 1977.

“I asked him that he said he didn't know, he couldn't understand,” Jacobs Jr. said.

Thigpen asked if he knew of his father ever hitting his mother and he answered he had not.

Jacobs Jr., however, caused his mother’s shoulder to be injured severely enough to require surgery seven years ago, ensuing testimony bore out.

Thigpen asked Jacobs Jr. about the incident in February 2002 in Brantley County and he admitted that he was arrested for disorderly conduct and family violence for fighting with his mother. He acknowledged that he posted $272 to get out of jail. He said he didn't speak to his mother for a year after that.