“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?”