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Depth of which said mortal wound the said John
Compton then and there instantly died and so the siad
Ellis Thomas then and there feloniously killed and
murdered the said John Compton against the peace
and Dignity of the state.

And the said Jurors further say upon their oaths
aforesaid that Ellis Thomas yeoman of this county as
aforesaid did wilfully [sic], maliciously, voluntarily, and
with malice of forethought murdered the said John
Compton in manner and form as aforesaid at the
house of Stuard Owens in Sevierville in [the?] County
aforesaid on the night of the twelfth of October 1816

In Witness when of as will the aforesaid Coroner
as the Jurors aforesaid have to this inquisition put
their Seals on the day and year, and at the place above
named -

Stuard Owens Coroner (seal)

Thomas Price (seal) foreman
Alexander Preston (seal)
Jeremiah Mathews (seal)
John Clabaugh Sen (seal)
Thomas Locke Sen (seal)
John Williams (seal)
Robert Lawson (seal)
John Cannon (seal)
Josiah Rogers (seal)
William Cannon (seal)
John Reid (seal)
Anthony Lawson (seal)