Adjourned Fall Term of 1882
     Saturday January 20th 1883
Court aforesaid comes the defendant by Ashby & Thrasher
and Finly & Hampton his attorneys and in open Court
applies for and enters his appeal from the Judg-
ment herein rendered to the Supreme Court of the
State of Florida to be held at the City of Florida
Tallahassee on the 12th day of June A.D. 1883
                   Ashby & Thrasher
                   Finly & Hampton
                     Defts attorneys
Whereupon the Court ordered that the Counsel for the
prisoner John Lee be allowed Thirty days in
which to prepare their Bill of Exceptions and to
complete their appeal obtain his writ of error

State of Florida }
       vs        }  Murder
John Lee         }       Sentence
                 }  And now the Prisoner John
Lee who has been convicted of Murder in the
first degree at this term of the Court = being
brought into open Court for Sentence and being
now demanded if he had any thing to say why -
the Sentence of the Court should not be passed on
him saith nothing, Whereupon the Court Sentenced
the Prisoner John Lee to wit: it is the Judgment of the
Court and the Sentence of the law that you John
Lee be taken hence to the jail of this County by the
Sheriff of Alachua County and that you be there
by him Safely kept and that you be hung by the
neck until you are dead, at such time and place
as the Governor of the State of Florida by his warrant
shall appoint.

State of Florida }  W.A. Hocker
        vs       }  assault with intent to commit Rape
Bill Williams    }  Thrasher Taylor & Sanchez
                 }  And now the prisoner Bill
Williams being in open Court as likewise the
counsel for the State and the Defendant - and
now this cause coming on to be heard on a motion
for a New trial Whereupon the Court after argument
had thereon and consideration by the Court the
Court overruled said motion for a new trial to
which ruling the defendant by his counsel