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Bureau of R.F. & A.L.
Hd. Qts. Asst. Supt. Sub-Dist. No. 3.
7th District Va.
Rocky Mount, Franklin Co., Va.
March 5th 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown.
A.A.A. Genl. B.R.F. & A.L.
Dept. of the Potomac.

General:

I have the honor to submit the following incident for the consideration of the Asst. Com.

Before the Circuit Court of this County, which convened here last October, were tried "Zylphia" and "Susan Brown" — Mother and Daughter — Colored — on a charge of having broken into the Corn-crib of Mrs. "Lucy Brown" — white — and stolen therefrom two and a half bushels of Corn. They were both acquitted.

Today was tried, before the County Court — which met here in Quarterly Session yesterday — "Peter Brown" — Husband and Father of the two above named parties. respectively — on the charge of having received from them, knowing it at the time to be stolen, the identical corn, obtained feloneously as alleged, under the same circumstances, and of the same person as previously specified.

During the trial an effort was made by the Prosecution to prove that the day succeeding the larceny two Boys living at the house of the Accused had endeavored to borrow a yoke of steers to take some corn to mill. This testimony was objected to by the Defense, as being irrelevant and calculated to do serious injustice; as, it having never been proved that the stolen corn had ever entered Defendant's house,

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10.25.2023 - Resolved [[?]]s and completed the rest of the transcription; Marking for review ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-10-26 15:28:17 changed "Gylphia" to "Zylphia" (see Page 185)