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                    <text>Arrest Warrant

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These are therefore, in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to command you forthwith to
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In the Circuit

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for

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Court

at

that

James

0. Campbell,

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county,

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1932,

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did shoot

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of the State

of Rockingham,

June term,

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James O. Campbell

Felony
June

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1932

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Foreman

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Campbell
Daisy Emswiler

D. W. Earman
Commonwealth's Attorney

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