April 16, 1833

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            <date value='1833-04-16'>Tuesday, April 16, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, William Green, Jr., and Jesse Baker appear in court as bondsmen
            for Thomas Edwards and acknowledge themselves indebted to state in two criminal cases.
            The court set Edwards's bond at $300 in <name type='case' key='L04235'>People v. Edwards and Edwards</name>, an indictment for assault with intent to
            commit rape. The court also set Edwards's bond at $200 in <name type='case' key='L04236'>People v. Edwards et al.</name>, an indictment for riot. The court set
            the state's witnesses' bond at $50, and ordered John Marshall and his wife, Sally, to
            testify for the state at the September term of court.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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         <p> Lincoln is a witness for the defendant, Jacob Bale, in <name type='case' key='L04935'>Simmons v. Bale</name>. The plaintiff dismisses the suit.
            Lincoln, Jacob Bale, Tilman Hornbuckle, and John Close of New Salem serve on the jury in
               <name type='case' key='L04576'>State Bank of Illinois v.
            Parkinson</name>. The jury awards the plaintiff $326 damages.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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