Have you ever wondered to yourself, self, when someone is charged with multiple homicides or

multiple crimes of the same type which occurred over a period of months or years, how are they trying all those different crimes all at

one trial?

Well, I'm glad you asked because it's your favorite time it's my favorite time it's what is

Joyner and Severance time so say there's a bank robber who a couple times a year successfully robs a bank.

He enters a small bank with one of those convincing old man lay tax masks over his face

and he slides the note to a teller.

This is a robbery.

Give me all the money in your drawer and don't hit the alarm.

The teller complies and slides the cash over to the bandit.

Who quietly walks out of the bank and jumps into his waiting ride? Now this streak of robberies goes on for three years. Six banks

robbed in total. A great success. Hell the media even gave him a nickname, the Silver Raider.

Life was good for the bandit, that is, until the seventh attempt, when a do-good or citizen

that was behind the desperado in line

recognized that mask from the news. And at that point

he took his bronze horsehead cane and brained the thirsty thief knocking him out cold in the process.

Jim Dandy comes to in the back of a squad car on his way to the police station to be booked and charged.

At the station he's placed in an interrogation room where he waits.

About 40 minutes later, two cops saunter in, one heavy, one thin.

And the thin one says, well, we finally nab the silver raider.

Now before the cop can say another word, Jim Dandy says, I want my lawyer.

Okay, says the heavy cop. We'll give you that call and you make sure to tell your

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