Spring Term A.D. 1889
       Saturday May 18th 1889
State of Florida  }  Wigg - Ashley & Carter
       vs         }          Murder
Peter Jackson     }  Lambeth & Hampton
                  }  And now William H. Wigg
State attorney prosecuting in the name
and by the authority of the State of Florida
and the prisoner Peter Jackson being in
open Court in his own proper person as
well as by His Attorneys J.E. Lambeth and
W.W. Hampton as likewise the Jurors who
had been duly Sworn and empanelled in
this Cause on yesterday to wit: - W.D. Bailey
E. Sparkman S.D. Thomas M.G. Snowden Geo K.
Broome C.J. Mixson F.H. Clyatt, J.J. Stroud
and C.F. Jolly being also in open Court the
Jury aforesaid after hearing the balance of
the evidence the argument of Counsel and the
Charge of the Court retired to their Room
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 Peter Jackson guilty
of Murder in the first degree and recemend
him to the mercy of the Court  G.K. Broome
Gainesville Fla                   Foreman
  May 18 - 1889

Whereupon the Court adjourned until Monday
morning at ten oclock