After being presented with evidence and after hearing several witnesses, the jury retired for a short interval and returned a verdict of guilty and Poo was sentenced to death.[18] Robert Macklin points out that no one placed Poo at the crime scene, no ballistic evidence that Poo's weapon fired the fatal shot was presented, and that Poo was too mentally weakened to stand a trial. Macklin concludes that what happened to Poo was "legal lynching".[19]