Franklin County GaArchives Court.....Hutchins, John 1809
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Source: The Atlanta Constitution, April 19, 1886
Written: 1809

From Carnesville GA Register  (Franklin County)


The Branding of John Hutchins

On Tuesday of the October term of the Superior Court of Franklin County 1809, 
John Hutchins was put upon his trial for murder and was found guilty of 
manslaughter. The record reads as follows:

The criminal having been brought to the bar and asked if he had aught to say 
why the sentence of death shoul dnot be passed upon him according to law, 
prayed his clergy, which was allowed, whereupon the court pronounced the 
follwing sentence.

That you, John Hutchins, be branded with a hot iron on the broad of the left 
hand with the letter M and forthwith be discharged, on the payment of costs.

Judge Charles Tait presided over the court and passed the above sentence.

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