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the said Harrison by counsel moved the Court to grant him a change of Venue, which motion the court overruled - and on the motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth this cause is continued until the next Court, and thereupon the said Harrison is remanded to Jail - 
And at another day to wit: At a Circuit Court continued and held for Buckingham County at the Courthouse on Tuesday the 8th day of September 1868 
Harrison a freedman who stands indicted of murder was again set to the bar in custody of the Sheriff, and the Jurors summoned for the trial of the prisoner under the venire facias issued by the clerk not being sufficient to form a panel a venire facias de novo is awarded commanding the Sheriff to summon thirty other Jurors of this county duly qualified and returnable here forthwith, by virtue of which a panel of twenty four Jurors free from exception was completed, and the accused having stricken from the panel eight of the names thereon and a Jury to wit William Ayres, William N Dixon Robert C Nicholas Jr, Joel T Moorman, Thomas M Watson, William B Megginson, Archer T Robertson RB Hudgins, Benjamin L Vest, William B Kitchen, William P Moseley and John H. Godsey for the trial of the accused composed of those not so stricken off were selected by lot and sworn the truth of and upon the premises to speak, and having heard the evidence retired to consult of their verdict, and after some time returned a verdict in these words "We the Jury find the prisoner Harrison guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in the within indictment and the said Harrison is remanded to Jail - 

And now at this day to wit: At a Circuit Court continued and held for the said County of Buckingham at the Courthouse on the same day and year first herein mentioned to wit on Tuesday the 15th day of September 1868 - 
Harrison a freedman who stands convicted of murder in the first degree was again set to the bar in custody of the Sheriff and it being demanded of the prisoner if for himself he had anything to say why the court should not now proceed to pronounce judgment against him according to law, and nothing being offered or alleged in delay of judgment. It is considered by the Court that the said Harrison be hanged by the neck until he be dead, and that execution of this judgment be made and done upon the said Harrison by the Sheriff of this County on Friday the 23d day of October next between the hours of 12 and 4 Oclock PM of the same day at the usual place of execution in said County - And the said Harrison is remanded to Jail -  

The following is a copy of the Record of the examination of Harrison a freedman in the County Court of Buckingham County - 
At a court held for Buckingham County at the Courthouse on Monday the 13th day of August 1866. 
Harrison a freedman who stands charged of a felony by him committed in this that the said Harrison on the 18th day of July 1866 in the county of Buckingham did by shooting kill and murder James Sudsberry being set to the bar in custody of the Sheriff and thereof arraigned pleased not guilty: Whereupon sundry witnesses were sworn and examined touching the premises, and arguments of counsel heard: On consideration whereof 

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