At this point in the story, the Scottsboro Boys have been in prison
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OZIE: This is a waste o' time! Let's move on!
HAYWOOD: (to audience): He be talkin' about Judge Callahan now. The one who replace Judge Horton after he lose his election.
OLEN: That ol' cracker never even graduated college--let alone go to law school.
OZIE: I don't see the importance of that!
HAYWOOD: All these things Ozie sayin' is quotes.
OZIE: What is the use of that? You have gone over that!
OLEN: He was one son-of-a-bitch, tellin' everybody he gonna cut the Scottsboro case down to size.
OZIE: Nobody gonna touch my ding-dong!
(A beat. Then the others can't help but laugh.)
HAYWOOD: (to the audience, smiling) That ain't the judge he quotin' now. That be somethin' else.
OZIE: Nobody ever touch the ol' ding-dong.
WILLIE: Uh-oh. He gonna tell it now.
HAYWOOD: What Ozie sayin'
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