Adjourned Fall Term of 1882
            Monday January 15th 1883
State of Florida }  W.A. Hocker  Taylor & Sanchez
        vs       }  Murder
John Lee         }  Ashby - Finly & Hampton
                   And now John Lee the prisoner
being brought into open Court and the Counsel
for the state as well as for the prisoner at the Bar
being present in Court Whereupon the Jury -
who had retired to Consider of their verdict
in this Cause Came into open Court and
rendered the following verdict to wit:
We the Jury find the prisoner Guilty of Murder
in the first degree So Say we all
Gainesville Fla January 15th 1883  L. Wertheim
                                   Foreman

Whereupon the prisoner was remanded to Jail

Whereupon the Counsel ^for the defendant announced orally that they
would make a motion for a new trial and
for a stay of Judgment

Whereupon the Court adjourned until Nine
oclock tomorrow morning

Adjourned Fall Term of 1882
        Tuesday January 16th A.D. 1883
The Court net pursuant to adjournment of
yesterday His Honor Enoch J. Vann Judge
of the Third Judicial Circuit of Florida pre-
siding as Judge of the Fifth Circuit -

The State of Florida }  W.A. Hocker  Taylor & Sanchez
          vs         }  Murder
John Lee             }  Ashby Finly & Hampton
                     }
                     And now on order the
order of the Court by way of amendment of
          of this Court 
the minnets^of the 12th day of January in
this cause, and now the defendant interposed
his plea to the Indictment and to the Jurisdic-
tion of the Court, to which said plea came
W.A. Hocker States attorney and interposed
a Demurrer to said plea -
Whereupon the Court after argument had and
the due Consideration of the Court the