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Judgment Docket 9
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               Fall Term AD 1898
               Friday December 16th
Court at the Court house in the City of Gainesville on
Monday the 20th day of Dec 1898 at 10 Oclock AM of said day
to serve as petit jurors for this the Fall Term of our Circuit Court
AD 1898 to wit
S.W. Brock   W.D. Dickinson   W.B. Doke   Henry R. Fewell
M.H. Ormond   R.L. Stringfellow   D.A. Miller   Monroe Venable
D.W.L. Barton   J.W. Exley   L.O. Zetrouer   W.A. Vaughn
  Witness the Hon W.A. Hocker Judge of our Circuit Court 
and the seal of said Court this 16th day of December 1898.
                         (seal)  H.C. Denton
                                   Clerk Circuit Court
State of Florida } Syd L. Carter & N.M. Allred
       V         } Larceny of Animals
May Rizor and    } W.H. Palmer
Paul Washington  }
                   And now on this day this cause came
on to be heard Syd L. Carter State Attorney prosecuting in
the name and by authority of the State of Florida and
the prisoners appearing in open Court in their proper
persons were arraigned and upon their arraignment
pleaded not guilty
  And now on motion of W.H. Palmer attorney for
May Rizor, a severance was granted and the defendant
May Rizor was placed upon trial
   Whereupon a Jury was called and there came
S.R. Harville  Oscar Gammage  Geo R. Taylor  D.J. Richbourg
W.C. Matheson and S.C. Tucker, who were duly Empanelled
and sworn to well and truly try the issue between the
state of Florida and the defendant according to the Evidence
   And the Jury aforesaid after hearing the evidence 
the argument of counsel and charge of the Court
retired to consider of their verdict; and after due
consideration thereof they returned into open Court
and rendered the following verdict to wit:
  We the Jury find the defendant not guilty
                        S.C. Tucker
                             Foreman
Whereupon the defendant was discharged from custody

State of Florida }
      V          } Larceny of Animals
Paul Washington  }
                 Now this cause coming on to be heard
Syd L. Carter State Attorney prosecuting in the name
and by authority of the State of Florida and the prisoner
Transcribed by Charlotte Vallellanes 29 March 2015
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