Henry Stephens and Dixon & Cooley on behalf of , Declaration, , IL, [ca. 27 Mar. 1844], Sympson v. JS (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); unidentified handwriting; docket by unidentified scribe, [, IL, ca. 27 Mar. 1844]; notation by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 28 Mar. 1844; notation by James M. Campbell, [, McDonough Co., IL], 12 Aug. 1844; eight pages; McDonough County Circuit Court Files, Illinois Regional Archives Depository vault, Archives and Special Collections, Leslie F. Malpass Library, Western Illinois University, Macomb.
next following, and until he the said defendant afterwards, to wit, on the day and year first aforesaid, to wit, at the County of aforesaid falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonable or probable cause whatsoever, caused and procured the said to be carried and conveyed in custody before the said , so being such Justice as aforesaid, to be examined before the said Justice, touching and concerning the said supposed crime. Which said Justice having heard and considered all that the said defendant could say or allege against the said touching and concerning the said supposed offence, then and there to wit on the day, and year first aforesaid, at the County of aforesaid adjudged and determined, that the said was not guilty of the said supposed offence, and then and there caused the said to be discharged out of custody fully acquitted and discharged of the said supposed offence; and the said defendant hath not further prosecuted his said complaint, but hath deserted and abandoned the same, and the said complaint and prosecution is wholly ended and determined, to wit at the County of aforesaid—
And whereas also the said defendant further contriving and maliciously and wickedly intending as aforesaid heretofore, to wit, on the seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, at the County of aforesaid, falsely and maliciously and without any reasonable or probable cause whatsoever charged the said with having committed a certain offence, punishable by law, to wit, Felony, and upon such last mentioned charge he the said defendant [p. [3]]