A woman who was set on fire by her boyfriend testified in court.

21-year-old Tara Best testified she was in the bathroom of their Clayton County apartment when Orville Brooks grabbed a can of gasoline and set her on fire.

"I could just remember him pouring it on me and saying stuff and I'm just pleading with him not to do it," said Best.

But she says, he lit the match and threw it on her. 

Kareem Rieves, a neighbor in of the victim's also testified that she ran outside.

"Yeah, what caught my attention was the scream," said Rieves.

Best remembers neighbors asking her who set her on fire.

"I told them my boyfriend.  And I remember saying my momma told me to leave him," said Best.

Best suffered burns on more than 70 percent of her body and was in the hospital for eight months, three of those on life support.

The defense plans on putting a fire expert on the stand to show the fire did not start the way the prosecution says it did.

If convicted, Brooks could face life in prison plus 207 years.