Thursday March 23^rd 1854

The State of Alabama

Re/ A & B to murder

John Pyles &

Nicholas Pyles

This day came the state by Wm L Mudd its solicitor and the defendants in their own proper persons who for pleas to the indictment read say respectively they are not guilty and therefore came a jury of good & lawful men to wit Daniel W. Prentice and eleven others who being empanelled & sworn well & truly to try the issue, joined on their oaths say we the jury find the defendant John Pyles not guilty & we find the defendant Nicholas Pyles guilty in manner & form as charged in the second count of the indictment read of an assault & battery and issue a fine against him of fifteen dollars. It is therefore considered by the court that the defendant John Pyles go hence fully discharged without delay and that the defendant Nicholas Pyles be fined in the said sum of fifteen dollars so assessed as aforesaid and that he pay the costs of this prosecution –

And then came the said Nicholas Pyles, Nicholas Pyles Sr & Ephraim A. Reinhardt and confessed judgment in favor of the state of Alabama for said fine of fifteen dollars & costs in that behalf expended. It is therefore considered by the court that the state of Alabama recover of the said Nicholas Pyles, Nicholas Pyles Sr & Ephraim A. Reinhardt the said sum of fifteen dollars fine as well as costs aforesaid for which let execution issue.

Be it remembered that Nicholas Pyles Jr, Nicholas Pyles Sr & John Pyles agreed to pay the state of Alabama the sum of three hundred dollars unless the said Nicholas Pyles Jr keep the peace for the space of twelve months especially toward James H Hardin and generally toward the citizens of the state of Alabama.

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