Special Term  A.D. 1891
       Thursday  February  5th  1891
Court to allow the Prisoner to withdraw his plea
of not guilty heretofore made and that he might
be allowed to interpose a Plea in Abatement to
the Grand Jury which found the Indictment in
this Cause and now after argument had on
said motion the Court doth decide that said
motion shall be overruled and that the same shall
not be granted to which ruling and decision
of the Court the Defendant there and then
excepted  --  Whereupon the trial of this Cause
was proceeded with and the Jury aforesaid
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 Defendant not guilty.           B.F. Hampton
Gainesville Fla Febry 5  --  1891      Foreman

Whereupon the Court adjourned until tomorrow
morning at nine oclock

Special Term  A.D. 1891
               Friday  February 6th  1891
The Court met this day His Honor  J.J. Finley
Judge presiding
               And now Comes L.W. Fennell Sheriff
of Alachua County and returns the Special Venire
issued out of this Court in the Case of the
State of Florida        }  
       vs               }  Murder 
Barton Albert Thrasher  }
                        }  as having been duly
executed by Summoning  W.A. Jernigan James Doig
E.M. Clark C.W. Bauknight H.E. Benson Henry T. Murphy
C.A. Colclough J.B. Dill J. Katy, J.A. Love N.W. Malphurs
R.G. Hunter, B.F. Jordon Frank Matthews C.W. Colson
John N. Barry W.J. Trapp H.R. Fennell, J.A. Meador Thos
Johnston John R. Bevill Geo S. Chamberlin W.M. Evans
M.L. Lambdin Geo K. Broome, J.F. Donaldson W.K.
Barttison W.P. Boulware W.M. Burch Geo W. Easterlin
Geo R. Ellis, B.E. Lenard M.E. Jolly Jno Fennell
T.H. Cato M.I. Jones W.M. Horn J.H. Jarvis, L.A. Jernigan
C.C. Dennison, J.D. Barron, J.L. Chrismon B.J. Earle
W.S. Dorsey T.E. Horn, J.J. Barton, J.C. Hovis, Allen Patrick