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       Fall Term A.D, 1889
          Wednesday January 15th 1890
       State of Florida }  Wigg
# 28           vs       } Larceny of a Domestic Animal
       Amaziah Bryant   }
                         And now this Cause came on to
       be further heard William H. Wigg State attorney
       prosecuting in the name and by the authority
       of the State of Florida and the prisoner who
       had been arraigned herein on the 14th instant
       being in open Court in his proper person a
       Jury was called and there came J.G. Rawls
       D.H. Merchant, A.J. Palmer, E.K. Roberts T.E. Jones
       Louis Kinsey who were duly Sworn and em-
       paneled to well and truly try the difference pen-
       ding between the State of Florida and the pris-
       oner at the Bar according to the evidence 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 Jurors find the Prisoner guilty
       So say we all January 15 1890  D.H. Merchant
                                          Foreman

       State of Florida }
                vs      }  Sentence
       Amaziah Bryant   }
                        And now the prisoner being in
       open Court for sentence was demanded
       if he had any thing to Say why sentence
       should not be passed upon him saith nothing
       Whereupon the Court sentenced the prisoner to
       confinement in the States Prison at hard
       labor for the term of Two (2) Years -

       Whereupon the Grand Jury Came into
       open Court and rendered the following
       Indictment of the
       State of Florida }
                vs      }  Breaking and entering a building in
       Willis Brinson   }  daytime with intent to commit
                             a misdemeanor
                               A True Bill
                             James Chesnut
                               Foreman of the Grand Jury   
Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 10 December 2014
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