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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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       Fall Term A.D. 1887
          Saturday December 18th 1887
       Fall Term of our Circuit Court and also
       that the Clerk of this Court and also
       that the Clerk of this Court do issue a
       Venire Facias directed to the Sheriff of Alachua
       County commanding him to Summon said Eighteen
       Jurors so drawn to be and appear before the
       Judge of our Circuit Court at the Hour of Two
       Oclock of Monday the 18th day of December
       A.D. 1887

       State of Florida }  Wigg
# 48            vs      }  Having carnal intercourse
       Green Wright     }  with an unnamed female under
                        }  the age of 17 years -
                        }  Lambeth
                            And now this Cause
       came on to be heard W.H. Wigg State atty pros-
       ecuting 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 J.E. Lambeth Esq his atty
       and now the prisoner being demanded how he
       would acquit himself of the Charge against
       him saith that he is not guilty as the Indict-
       ment 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 -
       W.B. Patterson, Frank X. Miller, M.A. Densler T.M. Cauthen
       J.E. Haynesworth and O.P. Cannon 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 Defendant not Guilty
                                          T.M. Cauthen
                                              Foreman
       Whereupon the Court adjourned until
       Ten oclock on Monday next







Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 25 September 2014
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