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I had to explain it to my preacher at that time. I was doing my duty under my oath. I was doing what the law told me to. I had to explain it. But I did, I got letters from Canada, from everywhere, and magazines and all of that of what I was doing. They called me everything but a gentleman. So I won't bring -- I brought it up.
But it's been a wonderful trip that we have had. And when I came aboard, and the other day I asked to look up this case, and that was that old Bill Stewart from Picayune was appointed by the Court to represent poor old Mac there. And so we had argued the case, we tried it for a couple of days, and about eight o'clock at night we started the closing arguments and old Mac's wife -- no mother, was sitting out in the audience, not like it is here now, was sitting out there in the audience, and old Bill Stewart said,
"Well we've been here two or three days on this case. On the other side is Dan Russell, Sam Favre and Boyce Holleman. On this side it's just poor old Bill Stewart and old Mac. Have mercy on old Mac. Well the jury went
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER