The Forgotten Colony: San Patricio de Hibernia: The History, the People and the Legends of the Irish Colony of McMullen-McGloin Page: 426

                                
The State of Texas
vs.
Juan Silvera and                               Indictment for Murder
Chepita Rodriguez
At this ca ,e appearing that there was no motion for a new trial and no motion
in at st of judgment, it is ordered adjudged and decreed by the court that the
defendant Juan Silvera now in his own person present before the court (and
the said defendant having been asked if he had anything to say why judgment
should not be rendered and sentence pronounced against him, said nothing)
to be committed to the custody of the sheriff of this county and that he be
closely confined and that he be taken hence under the guard provided by law,
and delivered to the superintendent of the State Penitentiary and that he be
there kept in close confinement at hard labor for the space and term of five
years and the clerk of the court is ordered to make out a copy of this judgment,
deliver it to the sheriff that it may be carried into effect.
The State of Texas
vs.
Juan Silvera and                                       The Sentence
Chepita Rodriguez
In this cause the motion for new trial having been withdrawn by the defendant
counsel and the said defendant Chepita Rodriguez being now before the court
in her own person and having been asked if she had anything to say why judg-
ment should not be rendered and sentence pronounced against her said
nothing but that what she had heretofore said. It is therefore ordered, and ad-
judged and decreed by the court that the said Chepita Rodriguez be taken
hence to the jail of San Patricio County or to some other secure place and there
closely and securely confined until Friday the thirteenth day of November
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three when she will be taken to
the place of execution and there between the hour of eleven o'clock and sunset
of said day she be executed according to the law by hanging by the neck until
she be dead and the clerk of the court is required to issue to the sheriff a war-
rant for the execution of the judgment.
NOTE: All other material was gathered from interviews with San Patricians
now deceased.

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