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the premises to speak and having fully heard the evidence, upon their oaths do say, we the jury find Rob" Holmes, the prisoner at the bar guilty in manner and form as charged against him in the indictment, and we do ascertain the term of his imprisonment in the Penitentiary of this state to be five years, and the said Rob" Holmes is remanded to jail. 
At another day to wit: At a quarterly court continued and held for Bedford County at the Court house on Monday the 29" day of July 1867. Rob Holmes a colored person who stands convicted of malicious shooting was again set to the bar in custody of the sheriff of this country and hereupon the prisoner tendered a Bill of Exceptions to an opinion of the court given upon his trial, which was signed and sealed and ordered to be made part of the record in the cause and it is in these words: Holmes a commonwealth Indictment. Be it remembered that upon the trial of this cause, and after the Jury had rendered their verdict, the prisoner (by his counsel) moved the court to set aside the said verdict and to grant him a new trial on the ground that, the said verdict was contrary to the evidence which motion was overruled by the court, whereupon the prisoner by his counsel excepted to the said ruling, and asked the court to certify the facts proved by the evidence on the trial of the cause, which being granted the court doth the following to be the facts, and all of the facts proved upon said trial to wit : that on the

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