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       Spring Term A.D. 1887
            Wednesday May 11th 1887
       State of Florida }
                 vs     }  Sentence
       Stephen Williams }
                        } And now the prisoner Stephen
       Williams being in open Court for sentence was
       demanded if he had any thing to say why sen-
       tence should not be passed upon him Saith
       nothing, Whereupon the Court sentenced the
       prisoner Stephen Williams to Confinement in the
       States Prison at hard labor for the Space of
       One Year

       State of Florida }
# 39          vs        }
       George Markey    } And now this Cause is Continued

       State of Florida }  Wigg
# 40          vs        }  Having a Concealed weapon on
       June Davis       }  and about his person = Thrasher
                           And now this Cause came on
       to be heard William H. Wigg States attorney prose-
       cuting in the name and by the authority of the
       State of Florida and the prisoner appearing in
       open Court in his own proper person as well as
       by his attorney B.A. Thrasher and now the prisoner
       being forthwith demanded how he would acquit him-
       self 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 H.C. Richardson, J.J. Tillis J.C. Bell
       J.L. Spears, W.H. Hagan Dote Weeks who were duly
       Sworn and empanelled to well and truly try the
       difference pending 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 prisoner guilty
                                  J.J. Tillis
                                      Foreman
       State of Florida }
# 52          vs        }
       Rollin Strappier }  And now this Cause is Continued

Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 18 June 2015
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