Friday April 9th A.D. 1869
Court met pursuant to adjournment Criminal Docket 
Continued

State of Florida     } Receiving                }      Solicitor & Arnow}
      vs             } Stolen Good Knowing them }   
James E. Collins     } to have been Stolen      }      Gardener & Finley}  
            On this day came the Solicitor Archibald T. Banks who
prosecutes the pleas of the State in this behalf as well as the prisoner 
in person who having entered a plea of not Guilty thereupon came a 
Jury to wit
1  Henry Thomas         5  Butler Chisholm           9   Isaac Peach
2  Walter Price         6  Benjamin Welcome          10  London Addison
3  Christopher Cummings 7  George Williams           11  Gilbert Jones
4  William Nelson       8  Arthur Simmons            12  Thomas Scott
who having been duly sworn well and truly to try and the
deliberations made between the State of Florida and the prisoner 
at the Bar after hearing the testimony of the witnesses the 
argument of Council and the charge of the Court retired in 
charge of the Court retired in charge of the Baliff
to consider on their verdict and afterwards to wit on the 
same day returned into Court and rendered the 
following verdict, We the Jury find the defendant 
Guilty, thereupon it is ordered Considered and
and adjudged by the Court that the said James E. Collins
be sentenced to three years imprisonment at hard labour
in the peniteniary for the term of Three years

        The Jury was called in open court and each individually
announced guilty as his verdict in the above entitled
cause
        The following cases were ordered to the absentee Docket viz=
 
State of Florida     }               }  State of Florida         }
      vs             }   Murder      }         vs                }  
Henry Geiger         }               }  Geo Cunningham           }  Larceny  
                                        Essix Cunningham         }
State of Florida     }                  Alias George Shannon     }
       vs            }   Larceny     }  State of Florida         }
Washington E. Stroble}               }         vs                } Horse Stealing
                                         Scy Williams            }
State of Florida     }                }
       vs            }   Larceny      }  State of Florida        }
Joseph I. Mickle &   }                }         vs               }  Cheating
Thomas Mickle        }                }   Isaac Sparkman         }