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       Fall Term A.D. 1887
           Monday December 19th 1887 -

       State of Florida }  Wigg
# 47           vs       }          Murder
       Samuel W. Polk   }  Taylor & Carter
                            And now this Cause came
       on to be heard William H. Wigg State attorney
       prosecuting in the name and by the authority
       of the State of Florida and the prisoner being
       in open Court in his own proper person as well
       as by his attys Mess Taylor & Carter, and the pris-
       oner being brought to the bar under the Custody of
       Samuel H. Wienges Sheriff of Alachua County to which
       Sheriff he is also likewise committed and being forth-
       with 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 Charles L. Slaughter

       And now the Venire being exhausted the
       Court ordered the Clerk of this Court to
       issue a Special Venire Facias for Fifty good
       and lawful men directed to the Sheriff of
       Alachua County Commanding him to Summon
       Fifty good and lawful men from the body of
       the County at Large returnable on Tuesday Dec-
       ember 20th A.D. 1887 at the hour of Nine oclock
       of the forenoon of said day

       Whereupon the Clerk having issued the
       Special Venire Facias as by this Court
       directed

       Julius Kincaid      }
                    Applee }
# 6           vs           }
       Florida Southern    }
       Railway Co applant  }  And now on motion of the
                              appellee the appeal in
       this Cause is dismissed and the Cause remanded
       to the Court from which it came ----
     
       State of Florida
                vs 

Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 20 January 2015
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