Hatfields & McCoys (TV Mini Series)
Episode #1.3 (2012)
Noel Fisher: Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts
Quotes
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Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts : [on the stand] Is it true that I murdered her in the first degree?
Perry Cline : Alifair McCoy. You murdered her. Did anyone tell you to say this?
Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts : You said to say that no one did.
Perry Cline : You mean no one told you to say anything?
Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts : Only that I murdered her in the first degree.
[laughter in the court]
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Judge Tobias Wagner : [handing down sentencing] Cotton Top Ellison Mounts: death by hanging.
Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts : [being handcuffed] That's fine because Devil Anse, Cap, and all of them are gonna come at midnight all armed and terrible. Riding dark horses with lightening hooves that don't never die. They won't let me hang.
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Ellison 'Cotton Top' Mounts : [as he's about to be hanged] The Hatfields made me do it. They hornswoggled me with love.