The reason I wanted to kill him was because I stood there and let him walk that boy out in the trees and shoot him and I never said nothin. Would it have done any good? No sir. But that dont make it right. The judge leaned from his chair and took the poker standing on the hearth and jostled the coals and stood the poker back and folded his hands and looked at the boy. What would you have done if I’d found against you today?
