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reasonably get out, Lee knocked, kicked and shoved Richard & David out of the house, which neither, at the time resented, but when so expelled, Richard said to his brother David, let us go home and not keep company with any such damn set, when he & David ^started^ on their way home from the house of Mrs Moore & her son, ^Lee^ followed Richard and asked him what he meant by what he said—and Richard said if you follow me I will show you—That Richard & David was then on their way home in a different & oppo-site direction from Mize's & the party, and had abandoned the idea of the party and Mize's & the residence of Mrs Moore, and had gone on their way home and off the premises of Mrs & M^r Moore ^& Johnson^, over three ^four^ hundred yards, persued closely by said Lee & said three other boys with volleys of abuse and insults, said Lee came upon said David, knocked, kicked and cuffed him, because David said finally if you ever come into my yard I will kill you, if I can get lead enough to do it. It was then about dark—Richard went to his brother David's relief and in the strife cut & stabbed by a single blow the deceased, with a little pocket knife, which proved fatal—Richard & David both say & the latter swears that when Richard stabbed Lee, he (Lee) had passed from David, after kicking, knocking & cuffing him, to Richard Laren and was attempt-ing to beat and cuff him—when Richard in