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0334

Coweta County
The records of this county show no cases of the class referred to in the circular except the following. On the 10th of May 1867 Amanuel Jones, a freedman aged about 18 years, in a dispute with Willie C. Wootten a white lad about the same age. Wootten assaulted the freedman with a knife inflicting a wound on the arm. A warrant was taken out against Wootten; the grand jury found a true bill against him. the case was disposed of before a trial was had by defendant paying something, amount not known to me.

Some time in July last, an assault with a gun, was made on the person of Zack Jackson a freedman, by one Driver a white man (full name not known) under the following circumstances. Driver and Jackson were in the employ of a Mr James Jackson, then a resident of this county. Driver circulated a report to the effect that he had seen the freedman Zack come out of the sleeping room of a daughter of their employer. For so reporting Driver was dismissed and in a few days afterwards came to a field where the freedman was at work and fired a gun at him, the ball taking no effect. Zack supposed the gun was fired by Driver had a warrant issued for his arrest, which was put into the hands of the sheriff of Merriweather County, the residence of Driver. He was arrested, taken before a magistrate of that county for a committing trial. At the trial the freedman Jackson and his witnesses, failed to identify Driver as the person firing the gun, and he was discharged