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Judgment Docket 9
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                       Fall Term AD 1899
                       Friday Dec 22d
         State of Florida }
Sentence       Vs         } Rape
         Sherman Henry    }
                          And now the prisoner Sherman Henry being in open court
         for sentence was demanded if he had anything to say why the sentence of the
         law should not be passed upon him saith nothing
           Whereupon the Court sentenced the prisoner as follows to wit: The Sentence
         of the Law is that you Sherman Henry be imprisoned by confinement in
         the State Prison for your natural life

         Pedrick & Smith      }
                 Vs           } Replevin
         Sherwood and Harvard }
                                   Motion for a New Trial
               Now came the defendants by their attorney E. Haile Esq
         and move the Court to set aside the Verdict and judgment rendered
         in said cause and grant them a new trial
              And now said motion being submitted to the Court and argued by
         Counsel for the respective parties and the Court being advised in the premises
         and it being admitted that the foregoing motion was not placed upon
         the Motion Docket within four days after the verdict was rendered
         and for this and other caused the same is overruled To which
         ruling of the Court the defendant excepts 
            It is further ordered by the Court that the defendants
         be allowed sixty days in which to settle bill of exceptions
            Whereupon Court adjourned until tomorrow morning at
         Nine Oclock

                       Saturday December 23d 1899

            Court met this day pursuant to adjournment of yesterday
         his honor W.A. Hocker Judge presiding

         Louis Clemmens and Roland Thomas }
         as deacons of New Hope Church    }
                        Appellants        } Writ of Error to
                     Vs                   } Alachua Circuit Court
         Joel W. Malphurs  Appellee       }
                       This cause came on this day to be heard and was argued by
         Counsel and submitted and the Court being advised in the premises thereupon
         upon consideration hereof it is ordered and adjudged that the first and
         second assignment of errors be and the same are hereby sustained
         and the order made and rendered in this cause on September 16th 1899 by the
         Justice of the Peace of the 7th Justice District of Alachua County Florida
         wherein and is hereby the Verdict and judgment made and rendered by the said
Transcribed by Charlotte Vallellanes 25 May 2015
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