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                    Fall Term A.D. 1884
                       Thursday December 4th 1884
        Pettit Jury can be drawn and summoned in the manner
        provid by law for the next week of this term. The Clerk is
        ordered to issue a special venire to be directed to the
        Sheriff of the County Commanding him to summon from the
        body of the County at Large Eighteen persons qualified to
        serve as Petit Jurors for the second week of this term of
        the Court and cause them to appear before the Court at
        10 Oclock Monday 8th Dec 1884.
                                           Thos F. King
        Dec 4, 1884                             Judge

        Whereupon the Court adjourned until tomorrow
        morning at nine oclock

          Fall Term  A.D. 1884
          Friday December 5th 1884
        The Court met pursuant to adjournment of yes-
        terday His Honor Thomas F. King Judge presiding

        State of Florida }   Hocker
No 27            vs      }  Larceny
        Amaziah Bryant   }  Taylor & Sanchez
                         And now on this day this Cause
        coming on to be heard William A. Hocker State
        attorney prosecuting in the name and by the au-
        thority of the State of Florida. And the prisoner
        appearing in open Court in his own proper person
        as well as by his attorneys Mess Taylor & Sanchez
        And now the prisoner being brought to the bar there
        under the custody of Samuel C. Tucker Sheriff of
        Alachua County to which Sheriff he is also likewise
        committed and being now forthwith demanded how
        he would acquit himself of the charge against
        him saith that he is not guilty as the Indict-
        ment alleges and for good and evil he puts
        himself upon God and the Country for trial - Whereupon
        a Jury was called and there came J.R. Tompkins
        J.J. Thompson, Jno Dogan, Marcus Endel, Geo R.
        Ellis and T.A. Carroll who were duly Sworn and
        empanelled to well and truly try the issue between the State
        of Florida and the defendant according to the evidence
        and the Jury aforesaid after hearing the
        evidence the argument of Counsel and the Charge
        of the Court retired to consider of their Verdict
Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 9 May 2015
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