"Clap" loudly heard "as if someone had been hit," the witness told the jury

One witness testified that he heard a loud snap in the alley and saw Carlos Pula overtake him shortly before the police arrived at a party at home in Auckland

Pula, 23, is on trial in Auckland High Court. manslaughter of a 25-year-old man, Reginald Sharma, in an establishment on Mount Roskill last August

The Crown alleges that Pula inflicted a single deadly cupola on an "absolutely innocent bystander".

Andrew Falconer says that he arrived at the party at Haughey Ave after drinking a few hours at Gemini bar in Otahuhu. He said that he had been greeted inside by a man whom he nicknamed "True Blue".

Falconer said that he later saw True Blue take a "low shot" at the back of his head while he was looking in the other direction. He said that the accused seemed to be angry after.

Falconer then went to check the car parked on the road. He recounted that he had heard a clicking sound "as if someone had been hit" in the driveway.

Falconer then saw Pula run straight ahead, and soon after, Stanley, who was at the party with Sharma, also walked. just behind him, holding a "massive" knife behind his back.

It is at this point that Falconer says that he decided that it was time to leave, and while he was walking towards the car, the police arrived. And it was then that he learned that someone had really been touched, and that it was about Sharma.

Earlier today, Fiona Culiney, Crown Attorney, told the jurors that on the night of August 19, Pula was "really drunk". "After hours of drinking, he decided to hit a completely innocent man in the face," she said.

Pula allegedly cut Sharma on the left side. from his face, causing a tear in the artery at the back of his head, resulting in cerebral hemorrhage and death.

The Crown argued that Sharma had "occupied her own business" and did not provoke it in any way.

Culiney testified that Sharma was "an absolutely innocent bystander" and that the accused had withdrawn his anger against him for no reason after being involved in a fight a few minutes earlier at the property

. two people at the party who attended the coup, one of whom was sober, will be

Pula's defense attorney, Mark Edgar, told the jury that the night's events have begun at the Gemini bar in Otahuhu and ended at Haughey Ave, involving a number of people who were drinking.

the defense record to two main issues. The first is the credibility and reliability of witnesses called to be called

The second issue focuses on medical evidence.

"Pula can not make a fist despite what the Crown might say," Edgar said. The trial was set for two weeks.