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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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Judgment Docket 9
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                                   Spring Term AD 1898
                          Tuesday May 17th 1898
Whereupon the Clerk issued the venire as by the Court directed.

State of Florida  }
      vs          }                murder
Wm C. Summers     }

                   The above styled cause having been set for trial on
the 20th day of May 1898, and it appearing to the presiding Judge
to be necessary to have a special venire from which to select a jury to
try said case, the Judge of the Court in the presence of the Clerk and
sheriff of said County, drew from the box containing the names of
persons slected for jurors for the year 1898 the following named
persons to serve as special Jurors on said case, viz:
G.M. Sharp 2G.W. Davis 3Frank Dexter 4L.C. Smith 5T.J. Love
6T.J. Peacock 7C.E. Owens 8J.S. Allen 9J.B. Davis 10M.F. Davis
11J.R. Williams 12W.R. Brice 13H.R. Ray 14 Rufus Putman 15J.W. Jeffords
16W.D. Wells 17Ransom Cason 18W.E. Richardson 19Geo R. Ellis
20C.C. Pedrick 21Joseph W. Malphurs 22T.M. Griffin 23C.D. Wood
24John Cayne 25A.M. Pournell 26A.J. Ennis 27 E.E. Stokes 28A.M.
Cushman 29John Dyess 30A.J. Bates 31F.F. Pauling 32J.T. Price
33P.A. Varnes 34D.G. Roland 35T.R. Pickett 36J.V. Denton 37L.C. Doane
38W.J. Hodge 39J.T. Griffin 40J.A. Crosby 41J.K. Feaster 42Geo K. Broome
43S.C. Hayman 44T.A. Doke 45J.G. Beville 46E.K. Anderson
47M.T. Browning 48G.R. Crump 49R.B. Hodgson 50 Z.T. Taylor Sr.
The Clerk will issue venire for the foregoing jurors, returnable
on the 20th day of May 1898 at 9 O'clock A.M.
In Open Court this 17th day of May 1898
                                                  W.A. Hocker
                                                    Judge

Whereupon the Clerk of this Court issued the venire as by the
Court directed.

J. Cummer & Son for the use of  }
J. Cummer & Son Lumber Company  }
a Corporation under the laws of }
the State of Michigan           }   Ejectment
              vs                }
Fleming Meekins                 }
                       Now comes the defendant in the above stated
cause by his Attorneys Evans Haile and Horatio Davis Esqrs
and moves the court to set aside the verdict of the jury rendered
herein in said cause and to grant him a new trial and now said
motion having been submitted to the Court and argued by Counsel
for both parties and the Court being advised in the premises
doth decide and order that said be and the same is hereby
Transcribed by Kaley Behl 4 January 2011
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