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gave him the blow on the side of the head with the flat hand. Neither can I say which of them squeezed his throat, but I believe that squeezing & the blow with the flat hand were the cause of his death. He was about 18 years old.
To this Jury.
I don’t know how the quarrel began nor what was the cause of their beating him.