“Yas, suh; it is.”
“Well, who inflicted that wound?”
“Bill, thar, he done it, one time.”
“By ‘Bill’ you mean the defendant here?”
“Yep.”
“I see you also have the scar of a bullet wound in your right cheek. Who made that?”
“Bill.”
“On still another occasion didn’t Bill, as you call him, gouge one of your eyes almost out?”
“That’s a fact, too.”
“Now, then, in view of the injuries you yourself admit having sustained at his hands, how do you reconcile your sworn statements of a minute ago that the defendant is an individual of peaceable and law-abiding nature, and a good neighbor?”