Counsel, to the court: "Your honor, I appeal to you to direct this witness to answer my questions—"
The Court: "Confine your answers to the questions as they are put to you, Mr. Witness."
Counsel to Yollop: "Now see if you can answer this question, Mr. Yollop. You have described in direct examination that this defendant was a big, burly, rough looking man. You say you were surprised when he went down under your inexpert blow. Why were you surprised?"
Yollop: "I was surprised to find how easy it is to knock a man down."
Counsel. "I see. You had never knocked a man down before. Is that so?"
Yollop: "I had never even struck a man before."
Counsel: "And yet you found it singularly easy to deliver a blow on the jaw of an armed man with sufficient force to knock him down?"
Yollop: "I can only answer that question by saying that he went down when I struck him. I don't know how hard or how easy it is to knock a man down."
Counsel: "But you admit you were surprised?"
Yollop: "Yes. I was surprised."