A territorial courtroom heard Tuesday that as Gordon Bill was being arrested last March, he told the RCMP officer he didn't know anything about what was going on.

'It was just a lot of choice language being used,' Whitehorse RCMP Const. Justin Fradette said as he took the stand during Bill's trial.

Bill is charged with robbery as well as break and enter.

The trial began Monday with William O'Connell telling the court about an attack against him last March 15. A stranger came into the O'Brien Place apartment where he was staying in the McIntyre subdivision and, after a brief discussion, attacked him, hitting him in the head, O'Connell testified.

Two rings and two necklaces were taken, O'Connell told the court.

The trial resumed Tuesday with Fradette taking the stand.

Fradette works in the first nation policing section for the Whitehorse RCMP detachment with the Kwanlin Dun First Nation (McIntyre subdivision) area being his primary responsibility.

When he came into work last March 15, he was briefed on the events of the previous evening involving O'Connell and informed that Bill was to be arrested in relation to the offence.

Shortly after 5 p.m., he went to the McIntyre subdivision and arrested Bill at his aunt's house in a basement laundry room.

While Fradette noted Bill wasn't wearing the same clothes the attacker had been described as wearing the night before, he said under cross-examination he had made no effort to look for the clothes in the laundry room where Bill was found.

'There were literally piles of clothes,' he said under cross-examination by defence lawyer Gord Coffin.

He added he was there to arrest Bill, not to search through items.

Fradette was also concerned about safety and Bill's reaction to being arrested.

Back at the detachment, after going through the process for Bill to be held in cells, Fradette took photographs of the injuries to the man's head. They included a gash to the left side of his temple, dry blood on his ear and other injuries to his face.

Bill said nothing about the injuries to police.

'He didn't bring them up,' he said.

Const. Jeff Monkman was the other RCMP officer to take the stand during Tuesday's portion of the trial.

Monkman, who is now based in Ottawa, was the officer who took O'Connell's statement and had O'Connell identify his attacker in a photo line-up.

After watching a portion of the video-taped statement, focusing on the photo identification Tuesday, Monkman reiterated for Coffin that he didn't make O'Connell pick one photo.

When O'Connell was having trouble deciding between two pictures, Monkman told him he could not choose two. Rather, he would have to select one or none at all.

'I told him he didn't have to pick anybody,' Monkman said, stating he hadn't been expecting O'Connell to select any particular photograph from the line-up.

O'Connell didn't seem uncertain when he finally selected a photo, he said.

Monkman's involvement with the case continued with his informing Fradette of what happened with O'Connell and preparing the court package following Bill's arrest.

Both of Bill's parents May Bill and Fred Blanchard also took the stand.

Each testified of the events in the evening, noting in their separate testimonies that Gordon had dropped by the house on the evening of March 14, stating he had been whacked in the head by another man they know at the apartment where the assault against O'Connell occurred.

Gordon had come by the house and spoken to May at the back window, telling her of the injuries, though neither May nor Blanchard saw them.

When he wasn't allowed to stay in the house, because he had been bringing too many people inside, he went to stay at his aunt's house.

A voir dire (trial within a trial) was also held through Blanchard's testimony around a statement he made to police.

He was then questioned on it by Crown prosecutor Noel Sinclair. Blanchard noted he had spoken to his son since the arrest, with Gordon claiming his innocence throughout the matter.

Both May Bill and Blanchard told the court Gordon had been in the hospital about a month earlier and was still in pain and having some problem walking around due to broken ribs.

They also said they didn't know their son to own any blue jeans.

While the trial had been scheduled to wrap up Tuesday, it was only the Crown prosecutor who had wrapped up the case.

The trial will resume on Thursday.

Visiting Judge Cunliffe Barnett is hearing the case.