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State of Texas 
County of Guadalupe
In the District Court of said County Fall Term 1866

To the Hon., the Judge of the 2nd Judicial District

Your petitioner James L Dial of said State and County; complains of one W Longworth of the County of Wilson in said State, for that the said Longworth on or about the fifteenth day of April 1866 with force and arms in said County of Guadalupe, arrested your petitioner and removed him to the county of Wilson aforesaid and there held your petitioner in confinement for a long time to wit; for the space of five days with out any reasonable excuse, and contrary to the laws of the State of Texas and against the will of your said petitioner. Petitioner further states that said Longworth on or about the 30th day of April 1866 with force and arms in said county of Guadalupe again arrested your petitioner and removed him