The new man in the last days of Felicia Stokes’ life testified Monday that he would have liked to further develop his relationship with her. Darryl Jones of Durham spent the morning on the stand in the fifth day of testimony in the murder trial of Thomas William Stokes Jr., 62, of Wilson.
The trial, which started Oct. 6, is now in its second week of testimony in Wilson County Criminal Superior Court.
Defendant Stokes is charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation death of his estranged wife, whose body was found by Wilson police in her Cockran Street apartment on the morning of Jan. 21, 2020…