The Osceola Times

The case of the State against Stephen Thetston, charged with the murder of George Brandon, was submitted to the jury last Friday evening, who, after being out all night, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree, and fixing the penalty at nineteen years confinement in the penitentiary. A motion was made by his attorneys, Messrs. J. O. Blackwood and C. Adams, for a suspension of judgment, on the ground that the indictment was informal, and in consequence, a want of jurisdiction of the court. The motion, however, was overruled, and the action of the jury sustained.