Nelson Circuit Court,,
The Commth. of Kentucky,,
against
John B. Wilkerson,,

The Grand Jury of Nelson County in the name and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse John B. Wilkerson of the Crime of maliciously and wilfully shooting and wounding with intent to Kill, committed as follows: the Said John B Wilkerson on the 1^st day of March 1858 in the County aforesaid did willfully maliciously and feloniously Shoot at and wound with intent to Kill one Electins Adams with a pistol loaded with powder and a leaden ballsullitts without Killing Said Electins Adams against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky —

Andy Barnett atty for the Commonwealth

Upon which indictment, the following verdict was rendered,, "We of the Jury find the defendant John B Wilkerson not guilty of the malicious Shooting & wounding as charged in the within indictment, but we find him guilty of shooting & wounding E. Adams in sudden heat without previous malice and not in self defense and in consequence thereof do fix his punishment at a fine of Fifty Dollars and Six months Confinement in the County Jail

Fr Realmear
one of the Jury

A Copy att W^m Murphy ClK
By W^m Laughlin D C