Fall Term A.D. 1880
Monday November 22nd 1880
Sworn and empanelled to well and truy try the
issues joined and thereafter after hearing the
evidence the argument of counsel and the charge
after Court retired to consider of their verdict
and thereafter on the same day returned into
open Court and rendered the following verdict
to wit: We the Jury find the prisoner not
Guilty. T.N. Moss
Foreman
Whereupon the prisoner was discharged
State of Florida )
vs ) Rape
H.R. Smith ) and now this cause is con
tinued on the affidavit of the Defendant.
State of Florida )
vs ) House Breaking in the day
Mary Harris ) time with intent of commit
) Larceny
) And now this cause coming
on to be heard W.A. Hocker State Attorney pros-
ecuting in the name and by the authority of
the State of Florida and the prisoner appearing
in her own proper person as well as by her attorney
W.W. McCall and the prisoner now being brought to
the Bar here under the custody of John W. Turner
Sheriff of Alachua County to which sheriff
she is also likewise committed and being forth-
with demanded how she would acquit herself
of the charges against her saith that she is
not guilty as the Indictment alleges and for
good and eil she puts herself upon god and
the Country for trial whereupon a Jury was
called and there came W.E. Bevill, C.P. Evans
T.N Wass, W.H.H. Folk James Harrison and John
Dogan who were duly sworn and empanelled
to well and truly try the difference pending and
thereafter after hearing the evidence the argument
of counsel the charges of the Court retired to con
bian of their verdict and thereafter on the same
day returned into open Court and rendered
the following verdict to wit: We the Jury
find the Prisoner Guilty so says we all |