WARREN COUNTY OHIO - Court Record: George Carpenter

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State Record A, Clerk of Courts, Warren County, Ohio (Court of Common Pleas):

May Term 1806, The State of Ohio vs. George Carpenter:
[excerpts] "The Grand Jurors for the County of Warren upon their oath present, 
that George Carpenter late of the Township of Wayne in the County aforesaid on 
the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and five with force and arms at the township aforesaid in the county aforesaid 
one ax of the Value of two Dollars and fifty cents of the goods and chattels of 
one Burwell Good then and there being found feloniously did steal take and carry 
away against the peace and dignity of the State of Ohio and against the form of 
the statute of the same in succor made and provided.

And the said George Carpenter being called come and hearing the said Indictment 
read saith he is not guilty thereof...
And therefore came also a Jury...do say upon their oath that the said George 
Carpenter is Guilty...
Whereupon it is considered by the court here that the said George Carpenter for 
the trespass and offence aforesaid in the Indictment aforesaid above Specified 
(which said George Carpenter being present here) is to receive on his naked back 
three stripes and also that he pay for the cost of this prosecution four Dollars 
and forty cents."