Spring Term AD 1899
               Tuesday May 23
a stenographer to take testimony in said cause at the trial
thereof, and have agreed to the appointment of Mrs E.R. Cooper as
such stenographer              Syd L. Carter
this 20 day of May 1899               State Attorney
                             J.A. Williams
                                      Defendants attorney
      It appearing to the Court that there is a necessity for the
appointment of a stenographer in the above case and
Counsel having agreed upon Mrs E.R. Cooper as appears from
the foregoing petition, it is ordered that Mrs. E.R. Cooper be
and she is hereby appointed stenographer to take the testimony
in said cause
Done in open Court                   W.A. Hocker
this 23d day of May 1899                      Judge

        Whereupon Mrs E.A. Cooper was duly sworn as such
stenographer by the Clerk of this Court.
      Thereupon by order of the court E.A. Pinnell Esquire
was duly sworn in as Assistant State Attorney by the Clerk of this
Court

State of Florida } Syd L. Carter  E.A. Pinnell
       V         }  Murder
Elias Griffin    } J.A. Williams
                And now on this day this cause came on
to be heard Syd L. Carter State Attorney for the fifth Judicial Circuit
of Florida prosecuting in the name and by authority of the state of
Florida and the prisoner Elias Griffin being in open Court in
his proper person as well as by his attorney J.A. Williams Esquire
  And now the prisoner Elias Griffins brought to the bar herein
under the custody of L.W. Fennell sheriff of Alachua County
to which sheriff he is likewise committed was demanded
how he would acquit himself of the charge against him
saith that he is not guilty of the charge as alleged in the
indictment against him and for good and evil puts himself
upon God and the country for trial
  Whereupon a jury was called, and there came
D.A. Dunnaway  J.W. Harris  Zell Sanders, J.H. Avera Jr
David Roe, J.F. Brush  W.E. Brown  H.R. Stokes  S.D. Tillman
Geo M. Desha  A.A. McRae and J.A. Stephens who were duly
empanelled and sworn to well and truly try and true
deliverance make between the State of Florida and the
prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge
according to the evidence, so help you God
     And the Jury aforesaid after hearing a part