Shilsby G. Brown, was sworn, and on his oath says, that yesterday evening the 7th June 1838, Larken Brablett, the deceased, came to this deponants, and requested him to go and help him get some Hogs out of his field, that he went and found a number of hogs in the field, that they ran or drove out some ten or twelve head, they caught one, the last they saw, near Hiram Holcombs fence, which is a dividing fence between the said Holcombe and Bramblett, that they draged the hog to the fence, near the corner of the field, in the low grounds of the creek where the bushes and briars are very thick, out side of the field, they laid down a few rails for the purpose of putting the hog into Hiram Holcombs corn field, just as they raised up with the hog, Larken Bramblett having hold of the head, and this deponant of the hinder part of the hog a gun was fired near to them, and in front of where Bramblett stood, who fell back with a groan and never spoke. This deponant spoke, and said In the name of God who has done this, and cast his eyes in the direction of where the report of the gun came from, and saw the smoke rising, but saw no person, the bushes being quite thick in that direction he stepped a few steps around the corner of the field, and saw Hiram Holcombe standing near a tree in the act of loading his gun in great haste...