Tuesday April 14th 1863
no business done Adjourned untill morrow 9 OClock
                             James B. Dawkins  Judge &c
              Wednesday April 15th 1863
Matilda S. Brown admx }    Cooper & Arnow
                      }
           vs         }  And now on this day came
Lewis G. Pyles        }  the parties by their respective
attornies and the defendant Saying nothing in bar or
preclusion of the plantiffs right to recover, it is ordered
that the Plantiff do have his Judgement against the
defendant by default and that the Clerk do assess the
damages Whereupon the Clerk having assessed the dam
ages at Two hundred & Sixty one            dollars &
  Fifty           Cents it is ordered Considered and adju
=dged by the Court that the plantiff do have and recover
off and from the defendant the said sum of Two hundred
   Sixty one                   dollars & Fifty
  Cents for his damages together with his Cost in this behalf
expended taxed at     Six              dollars &
41 Forty one Cents and the defendant in Mercy &c

State of Florida }   Solicitor
         vs      }   Murder
James M. Mills   }   Banks & Arnow
                  And now on this day came as well the
Solicitor of the State of Florida E.M. Graham Esqr who
prosecutes the pleas of the State of Florida in this behalf
and the defendant in person and his Attorney Banks &
Arnow, the said defendant pleads not guilty whereupon
a Jury was Called to wit
1   J.P.C. Massey              7   E.G. Berry
2   J.C. Dickinson             8   H.L. Meeks
3   L. Williams                9   John A. Cannon
4   J.R.W. Grissom             10  D.M. Finger
5   John H. Malphus            11  H.C. Parker
6   J. Turner                  12  D. Blake
                                   George Johns being
Examined as witness on behalf of the State and the said
Jury having heard the evidence and the argument of
Council and the Charge of the Court, and retired out of
Court to consider of their verdict and after remaining a few
minutes returned into Court and rendered the following verdict
We the Jury find the prisoner not guilty, The Judge then
ordered the prisoner with his bond to be discharged form
this Court