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      Special Term A.D. 1891
         Thursday February 5th 1891
      Foreman of the Grand Jury
      State witnesses Henry Ramsey Ellen Suggs -
                    William H. Wigg
                          State attorney

      State of Florida  }
             vs         }  Larceny of Domestic Animals
      Madison M. Conner }  A True Bill
                           Edward A. Jeffords
                           Foreman of the Grand Jury
                       State Witnesses W.W. Conner  Henry Stokes
      John Crosby      William H. Wigg
                                   State Attorney
      And no Bill in the Case of the
      State of Florida }
              vs       }  Murder
      John M. Hewitt   }
                          Whereupon the Defendant was
      discharged from his recognizance also the States
      Witnesses in this cause -

      State of Florida }   Wigg
#43           vs       } Having a weapon Concealed on
      Jim Thomas       } and about his person
                       }  Ashby & Davis
                         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 who had been arraigned
      herein on the 3rd day of February A.D. 1891 being in
      open Court in his proper person as well as by his
      attorneys Ashby & Davis and now a Jury was called and
      then came B.F. Hampton  Tobias Brown  Vandi H. Ellis
      E.D. Hodges  Lewis C. Ellis  C.C. Martin  - 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
      prisoner Guilty        V.H. Ellis  Foreman
      Gainesville Fla Feb 5 - 1891




Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 21 July 2014
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