MOTION FOR CONTINUANCE FILED BY DEFENDANT JNO. ADAMS, IN STATE OF TEXAS V. JNO. ADAMS, WHO IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT: "ALL OF HIS WITNESSES TO WIT S.F. STARLEY , J.M. PURDOM, ARCHIE CROMWELL AND BILL FERRELL ARE ABSENT ALL OF WHOM ARE RESIDENT CITIZENS OF NAVARRO CO. TX. DEFT EXPECTS TO PROVE BY SAID WITNESSES THAT HE ACTED IN SELF DEFENSE AND THAT HE WAS AT HIS OWN PLACE OF BUSINESS WHEN THE PARTY ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN ASSAULTED BROUGHT ON THE ATTACK AND STRUCK THE FIRST BLOW THAT THE WITNESS [sic] ARE NOT ABSENT BY THE PROCUREMENT OF DEFT. | JNO ADAMS "X" HIS MARK | SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME THE 5TH DAY OF SEPT. 1882. S.H. KERR, C.C.C. NC, BY F.S. KERR, DEPUTY"
[Navarro Co., Texas]: 1882. Large folio, folded to 8" x 12-1/2" to make [2], [2 blank] pp. Lined paper with ruled margins, completely in legible ink manuscript. Motion on first two pages and signed by J.S. Kerr as Deputy Sheriff. Docketed on final page "No. 699, State of Texas vs..... More