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Campbell.

[...] [...]. B-1-7-4. 1851

State of Tennessee September Term Circuit Court
Carroll County A.D. 1857

The Grand Jurors of this State of Tennessee
elected empaneled sworn &charged to inquire in and
for the body of the county of Carroll aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid present that Abraham M. Thomas
late of said county laborer on the twenty fifth
day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred & forty nine with force and armed in the
County of Carroll aforesaid feloneously, wilfully, ma-
liciously, deliberately, premeditately, and of his mallice
aforethought with a certain Pistol of the value of
five dollars then & there loaded and charged with
gunpowder and a leaden bullett which he the
said Abraham M. Thomas in his hand then
and there had & held in and [words missing] body of one
Joshua Swayne in the peace of God and our said
State then and there being feloniously, wilfully
maliciously deliberatly premeditately and of his
malice afore thoughts an assault did make by
then & there presentings fixing and discharging said
Pistol so loaded and charged as aforesaid to at
against and upon the body head and left arm
of him the said Joshua Swayne with in the distance
said Pistol would carry and then and there with
the Pistol afore said so loaded and charged as aforesaid
filoniously wilfully maliciously deliberately preme -
ditately and of his malice aforethought Shooting
penetrating and wounding him the Said Joshua Sway-
ne in and upon the back part of the left arm of
him the Said Joshua Swayne with intent him the Said
Joshua Swayne with the pistol So loaded and charged
as aforesaid feloniously wilfully maliciously deliber-
ately premeditatedly and of his malice afore thought