Q. How did it happen—how did he come to strike you?
A. I was just in the street there, and he struck me.
Q. Without any provocation?
A. Without any provocation at all.
Q. What did he say?
A. He damned me.
Q. Give any reasons for striking you?
A. No reasons at all.
Q. Was it for remonstrating with him?
A. No; I was not talking with him. I was standing in the street, talking to another man, and he came along, and I believe he jostled against somebody, and his hat went off, and I heard him command some one to take up his hat, and I paid no attention to it. The gent I was talking to, said we had better get away from here. He stepped in the street and went away, and this fellow made a pitch at me, and struck me.