A young woman relived the moment she was stabbed in the stomach in Supreme Court yesterday.

Shanae Outerbridge, 21, told the jury how accused Justis Smith had punched her and two other women before making the attack.

Justis Raham Smith, 25, of Sunset Mews, has denied unlawfully wounding Ms Outerbridge, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm, during a fight at Pender Road, Sandys last year.

Smith has also denied allegations of punching Ms Outerbridge's cousin Hanifah Taalibdin and possessing a penknife in a public place.

Yesterday, Ms Outerbridge told how she hauled Smith out of her taxi by the Dockyard gates after seeing him punch Ms Taalibdin; she then got into a fight with Smith after he hit her.

Smith had snuck into the trunk of their taxi as they left the Showtime nightclub in the early hours of February 2.

Ms Outerbridge heard raised voices in the back and turned to see Smith forcefully punch her cousin. She then went to tackle Smith.

She told the Supreme Court: "I asked him 'Why did you hit a girl?' He punched me in my face on the left side, I felt it. It was hard."

Defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher tried to paint a picture of an aggressive Ms Outerbridge - who admitted to having been in several previous fights including punching a tourist in a bar - starting the fight by hitting Smith in the back of his head as he walked away from the taxi.

She denied this and said her thoughts were on getting to an after-hours party at Whitehill.

Ms Outerbridge said she fought back under a street lamp before others pulled them apart. Asked to describe the fight she said: "We was hooking."

She said Ms Taalibdin then fought Smith and she tried to break it up but again became involved.

As the pair walked back to the taxi, Ms Outerbridge said she turned to see Smith punch their friend Taniq Smith.

"She dropped; it was hard," said Ms Outerbridge who told the six-man, six-woman jury that she then went to challenge Smith as he got into an empty car in a bid to escape.

The pair fought yet again until Smith punched her "real, real hard" in the side of her abdomen and she backed off and walked towards the taxi, she told Crown Prosecutor Lloyd Rayney.

"Someone said I was bleeding. I looked down and saw I was just covered in blood. Blood was everywhere, right down me. It was coming from my stomach."

She blamed the stab wound on the punch from Smith and denied a suggestion from Ms Christopher that someone else had been responsible during the melee. However the witness admitted she'd never seen the weapon or which hand had landed the blow.

Earlier, doctors testified the hole was between two millimetres and five millimetres wide but they could not estimate the wound's depth, which narrowly missed the abdomen, colon, bowels, ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Ms Outerbridge, who had no medical insurance, said she was off solids for half of her $6,000 four-day hospital spell and, despite the pain, had ignored follow-up appointments because she couldn't afford more medical bills.

Recalling the stabbing, she said she backed off towards the cab after the stomach blow and denied remaining at the car to fight Smith as he manoeuvred to drive off, despite earlier testimony to Police.

She admitted she punched Smith as many times as he hit her and had started the fight at the car, but denied it was a boxing match.

Ms Christopher suggested Smith himself had been stabbed in the face as a group of people tried to pull him from the car.

And she said two of Ms Outerbridge's friends, Stevie Lightbourne and Trevor Mills, had also fought with Smith.

The case in front of Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons continues today.