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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