Jurors heard a 911 dispatch call today during which the dispatcher said Joyce Garrard could be overheard saying "give me a smoke" while her 9-year-old granddaughter was lying motionless at her feet, barely breathing.

Testimony continued this morning in the trial of Garrard, 49, accused of making her granddaughter Savannah Hardin run for more than three hours on Feb. 17, 2012, as punishment for lying about eating candy. She died three days later in a Birmingham hospital.

During the dispatch tape, which lasted more than 11 minutes, a dispatcher spoke with Jessica Hardin, Savannah's stepmother, as medics rushed to the home in north Etowah County. The medics were told to respond to a 9-year-old having a seizure, the dispatcher testified.

In the background, Garrard could be heard repeating "Savannah, Savannah" and "open your eyes" at regular intervals. Hardin told the dispatcher the child was unresponsive. After a few minutes, she told the dispatcher that Savannah vomited, but was still not moving, with her mouth clinched. She said this was "her first time" having a seizure.

When asked if the child had any type of medical problems, Hardin said, "No."

District Attorney Jimmie Harp asked the dispatcher, Lori Beth Beggs, if she had ever had another person during a 911 call ask for a cigarette. She said no. Defense attorney Richard Rhea later asked Beggs if Garrard had said, "give me a throw." She said she didn't hear that.

Later, when Rhea questioned a medic who responded, he asked if the blanket wrapping Savannah Hardin was a "throw." The medic said he didn't know. The medic testified that he and two other first responders found Savannah Hardin lying on the ground, cold to the touch, wearing a wet T-shirt and panties, covered in a blanket.

The medic, Justin Harrell, said Garrard also attempted to get into the ambulance with Savannah, saying the child had been molested. "She said she didn't want her waking up alone with a man standing over her," Harrell said.

Earlier testimony dealt with a witness who saw Savannah running just before her collapse. Jolie Jacobs, Garrard's neighbor, repeated some of the same observations as her husband, Chad, did on the first day of testimony. She said she saw Garrard yelling at Savannah to make her continue to run

"She was hostile toward her," Jacobs said. "It was hateful, hostile way of talking."

She also said that she stood on her porch on several occasions after 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 17, after she saw Savannah collapse and begin throwing up. Garrard, she said, tried pouring water in Savannah's mouth and told her, "You better drink up or you can't go to the bathroom."

"She was throwing up while she was trying to get water," Jacobs testified.

Jacobs then said that as light began to fade around sunset, she thought she heard what sounded like Garrard striking the child. She tried to recreate the sound, which she described as "skin on skin."

Biting her lip, Jacobs said she decided she had to intervene after about four or five trips to her front porch, and went inside to tell her husband.

"It had gone on long enough," she said. "I wish I had done something a lot sooner."

By the time they both came back out, medics had arrived. The next time they heard about Savannah's condition was in church Sunday, when she was "put on the prayer list."

Defense attorney Dani Bone questioned how Jacobs could have seen these events after showing her a paper stating sunset was at 5:30 p.m. that day. "I know what I saw and heard," she replied.

On Monday, jurors heard opening statements from prosecutors and defense attorneys and the first two witnesses.