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prepared his report thought he had only applied to Jerry for the facts.  Mr Ferguson herein before mentioned was present & stated that Jerry had selected him as a friend & arbitrator & that three dollars to Jerry, twenty dollars to Yancey together with the payment of the Doctor's bill & seventy-five cents per diem for every day lost from work by Yancey to be decided by the physician, had been agreed upon as a settlement and that the whole amount had been secured to Jerry by notes with good personal security.

It has always been customary in this State to allow the parties to compromise.  Misdemeanors & on Assaults & Battery with a knife could be nothing ore but Mr McKnight evidently considers himself a legal philosopher & prefers to look at the law as he conceives it should be, instead of as s or it is;  and according to his views this is, or ought to be a felony.

I did and advised what I conceived to be best for the really injured party and in entire accordance with the spirit & letter