Fall Term A.D. 1881
          Thursday December 1st 1881

        State of Florida }  W.A. Hocker
No 24          vs        }  Carrying on the business of Liquor
        Willis Mathews   }  Dealer without License
                         }  Thrasher & Hampton
                            And now this Cause coming
        on to be heard W.A. Hocker States Attorney pros-
        ecuting in the name and by the authority of
        the State of Florida and the prisoner appear-
        ing in his own proper person as well as by his
        attorneys saith he is not guilty as the Indict-
        ment alleges and for good and even he puts him-
        self upon God and the Country for Trial Where-
        upon a Jury was called and there came
        E.W. Smith  A. Strickland, J.M. Endel, Jno Burnett
        Geo Gatlin & H.M. Tillis who were duly sworn and
        empanelled to try the issue joined 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 came into open Court and rendered the
        following verdict to wit: We the Jury find the
        prisoner not Guilty   J.M. Endel  Foreman
        Whereupon the prisoner was discharged -

        Whereupon the Court fined George Brown for
        contempt of Court the Sum of Three dollars

        Whereupon the Grand Jury came into open Court
        and rendered the following Indictments of the
        State of Florida }
              vs         }  Indictment for Murder
        Jack Scott       }  A True Bill
                               Baylis J. Earle
                               Foreman of the Grand Jury
                               State witnesses
                               Israel Stewart, J.W. Turner
                               Jesse Washington, Samuel Stewart
                               Jacob Endel  L.L. Hill
                               S.J. Burnett
                               W.A. Hocker
                                    State atty
        State of Florida    }
                vs          }  assault with intent to Murder
        Henry Williams      }