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7 and seeing that he was under the full determination to shoot me. I could not take time to raise my gun to my shoulder so I cocked and puled trigger not seeing any impropriety in shooting first if I could. He then staggered around about 10 or 15 ft and kept trying to shoot and finally he did shoot But his Ball struck the ground before it reached me Then I raised my gun and took aim at him and fired But the load was small shot and did not do any damage as I have heard of The first time I Shot [[strikethrough]] I fired [[/strikethrough]] I done the work as the Shot was large ones I then turned my back to the party and went to my house J.M Shaw Agt