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        Fall Term A.D. 1883
                Monday December 10th 1883
        the Defendants Bonds were estreated and
        Scire facias ordered to issue to defendants
        and their bondsmen and alias Capias ordered
        to issue

        State of Florida }  Hocker
No 63          vs        }  attempt to break & enter a store
        Frank Long       }  house with intent to commit a felony -
                             Ashby & Thrasher
                             And now this cause coming on
        to be heard W.A. Hocker State attorney prosecu-
        ting in the name and by the authority of the
        State of Florida and the prisoner appearing in
        his own proper person as well as by his attorneys
        Messrs Ashby & Thrasher and now the prisoner
        Frank Long being brought to the bar of the Court
        here under the Custody of Samuel C. Tucker Sheriff
        of Alachua County to which Sheriff he is also
        likewise Committed and being forthwith demanded
        how he would acquit himself of the Charge against
        him saith that he is not guilty as the indictment
        alleges against him and for good and evil he
        puts himself upon God and the Country for trial
        Whereupon a Jury was called and there came
        1. S.T. Prescott 2. C.W. Little 3. Richard C. Davis 4. John
        G. Bevill 5. John Chesser 6. Thomas S. Kirby who
        were duly Sworn and empanelled to well and
        truly try the difference pending according to the
        evidence and thereafter after hearing the evidence
        the argument of Counsel and the Charge of the
        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 Defendant Guilty
                            S.T. Prescott
                                  Foreman
        State of Florida }  Hocker
No 34           vs       }  dealer in Tobacco & Cigars
        Joseph Simonson  }  without license
                            And now this day comes the
        Defendant Joseph Simonson and in open
        Court enters his plea of guilty to the Charge against
        him
        Whereupon the Court Sentenced the Defendant
        Joseph Simonson to pay a fine of $100 and
Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 15 February 2015
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