Early Governors' Papers

in hearing of said Defendant he pleads not Guilty thereto and for his trial puts himself upon the Country and the Solicitor general likewise Whereupon came a jury of good and lawful men To wit Paris F. Dooley, John Money, Robert G. Kelsey, John C. Waddill, Elijah Harlin, James Sellars, Edmund P. Waddill, Nathan^l Chears, Richard C Harris, Alexander Moore, Joseph [Tour?], & Alexander Cathey, who being Elected tried and Sworn well and truly to try the issue of this Traverse Between the State and the Said Defendant upon their oath Do Say that the Said Defendant is guilty as in the Bill of Indictment against him is alleged and they further find the Coffee Stolen was worth twenty five Cents. Therefore it is con =sidered by the Court that the Said Defendant receive on his Bare Back at the whipping post ten lashes well laid on by the Sheriff of the County Between the hours of One and two oclock on Saturday the 12th of August next and that he pay the costs of this prosecution and be made infamous agreeably to act of assembly in Such Cases, from which judgment the Defendant prays an appeal from the honorable the Circuit Court for Maury County which is granted and not being able to give [Security?] is prayed into the Custody of the Sheriff and by order of the Court is taken into custody accordingly

State of Tennessee Maury County Court

July Term 1820 I Joseph B. Porter Clerk of Said Court do certify that the foregoing is a true copy (in substance) of the proceedings had in this Court in the above Case of the State vs Alfred Wallis as appears of Record in my office, except a Bill of the Costs

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name at office the 29^th Day of July 1820 Joseph B. Porter clerk MC

Robert L. Cobbs SamL Polk [M Caruthers?] George M Martin C M [clk?] [Jas ?] [P. ?] H.B. Porter John T Moore David Craighead [Robt. C. ? Jr] John Kennedy George Tate Jackson Fitzgareld Abner Matthews Daniel [Goodrum?] James Thorp Robert Campbell Alexander Moore [illegible] James H. Bowman Tho. Brown William Erwin John A. Faris Noel Waddill David Martin Allen Brown [H?] Grove [P. R. Backer?]

John Wallis The Father of the unhappy Man

Mary W. Wallis his wife Alberto F. Wallis Mortimer R. Wallis his sons

be inflicted on him by burning in the hand ^& the imprisonment should be remitted or pardonedSeptember 28.^th 1820. And they will pray &c

W^m Moore (Juror) Nathaniel B. Buckingham Juror Alexander M. Lin Juror Jas Martin Juror M. Mickelroy Juror Francis Wyatt Juror - John J Whitaker Juror Wilson Frost Juror Vance Greer Juror Benjamin Whitaker Juror Rich^d [Flyne?] Juror [Chilsph Koovill?] Juror Jno Greer Shff Henry Allen C. Boyles Henry Kelso [Harry Helman?] Will E. Kennedy Argyle Campbell Joshua Haskell William C. Kennedy John Whitaker Charles M^cKinney W^m Dickson

Joseph Hinkle Price M. Garner Samuel Ragsdale George [Coatt?] John Cunningham Cornelius Stater Alexander Moore R. Dickson J. P. M^cConnell R. H. M. [Ewen?] T. A. Pugh B. [illegible] James Gibson Jn Holshousen [J? Embry?] J. Solomon John B. Holloway William Wyatt [illegible] W^m C. Jackson Isaac Estill