The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-04-12

Brown Cohlc, you have been charged
and indicted for the highest q inc known
to the law OF the land. a Jury Of good
and lawful men Of our county have said
that YOU ARE guity-thul lhcy lind 10 nit
igItinG circumstances The consequence
j. that you must suffer death by hanging,
owing to the extreme penalty imposed by
the law. | have given you patient trial.
Your case has been ably investigated.
The jury gave special atlcn ion to the cv-
idcucc. listened patiently to tucar1amrnt
Of counsel, charge ot the Court, ana dcllb-
Grated ut their room twcnty-ioUr hours.
and said til It there was no doubt OF your
guilt; that there was no evidence on which
they could base Il mitigating circum-
stance. had II hope that they could ;
therefore ASKED them the question myself,
it is true Chat no man saw You do the
deed. Bot yet you have become entail
glrd in the net-WOrk OF circumstances.
Every circumstance points at your Guilt .
1t VA. certainly Il horrible murdrr.-hll inG
Il man WHO was eating his dinner II his
own house. rs You cN identity dii Kill thus
man. j. certainly Il horrible crime. That
you had the opportunity and TIE motive
there is not II duabt. Your passions bad
led yon uStray. You had won tor alice
TORS Of that mans wife, dcUUurAcd her.
aud excited his suspicious. He was in
your Y. and prevented yOu from graft
tying your luslhll passions; and tor fear
that ne might knuck You in the mead in
consequence of your intimacy with his
wife, YOU struck him with the block,
placed his body arlOss Il chair. ana then
cut his throat. y mare singular evidence
OF total drpravity have vet to see. You
were clothed with the pretended robe Of
protr>sed follower of the
'mrck and lowly Jesus, '--itnd while at
tending your church meetings the proof
shows that you we're dclibcLUtMg ann de-
Nisimg Il plan 10 murder your trll0w-man.
whose wife you had dcOaurhed in ohc-
dicnce to your vile and vehement ia
siOnS. You had brought shame and con
fusion on your own wife and Dctray ed the
Your act was deliberate. lOn had be- II
cogitling in your mind for months the
OF tlt oifn,c. lOu procured
a deadly weapon, inflicted the deadly
blow, and, to avert suspicion, parcu t. Z
body in the position in which i. was
found.
There is Il divinity that shapes our ends,
rough new them as we may; he vino leads
such Il course never knows when the end
is. Little did you Il ink or know how the
blood lrOM his veins and artCrr, would
spirit But IT flowed out ON our garments,
am was there rs Il Witness against YOU.
\ on discovered the blood on your clothes,
ana mluc an effort to rub it ont, hul you
did not know of the spot Oi blood on your
forehead. Your first object was to create
the impro Ssion That he had KILLED himself 4
but the tact tMat he Was lying across Il
'hllr. skull fractured, throat cut, and the
flow of tue blood in tic direction That i'll
lid flow, rOncH>iVcly SHOAS that Ac did
rot suicide. 1t was bungling job.
Nhch You went to that gentleman :
house to get nails, while there you learn
'd from him tiat he was going to your
house after gear. You knew that he
would see the result of your desperate ac-
lion, therefore You beat him to tie house
sixty yards, and Is he appeared your COM
Ing out OF the hou>c, cvincinG great alice
.atiOn, j. one OF he powerful circumsIan-
:cs against you. Your first Impression
ought to have been your last, tor when Il
man is found dead, with evidences of vio-
cnrc ON his body. the natural conclusion
Is that he has been murdered.
Tne evidence, think. is cOnrlu>i u that
you are the guilty party. and can see
nothing on which can grant You Il NJ W
rial | would nave been truly glad If tnc
jury had found llGatinT circumstances.
nccausc Of my aversion to capital punish
mrnt.
will fix the ~ Friday in May your
execution. and | hope that You viii reflect
and repent. God is mrrCitul lie PARDON
'd the THIEF on the cross. He will pardon
you, if you will repent. Trust alone to-
His mercy. You have been tine yilr>t Of
sinners. | truSt y'u will read your Bible
on bpnlGd knees. asking God to forgive
YOU. trust He will,
The sheriff will take you to some COVE
nirut place within two miles OF the
Courthouse crest gallowS and hang you
by the neck until you are dead. May God
have mercy on vOur soul