Docket Entry, Removal Orders, 11 April 1839, Copy [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Docket Entry, Removal Orders, Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO, 11 Apr. 1839, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Boone Co., MO, Circuit Court 1840). Copied 26 June 1839 in “Copy of Record,” 4, 11; handwriting of ; certified by , 26 June 1839; document destroyed. Photocopy at State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. Includes seal.
Docket Entry, Removal Orders, 11 April 1839, Copy [ State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason ]
Page 4
The State of )
vs)
Indictment for Treason
Joseph Smith Jr , and and others—
The of this Court having been Counsel in this Cause; and the Parties herein not consenting to a Trial thereof in this Court, but the said Defendants Joseph Smith Jr , and objecting thereto, for the reason that the of this Court has been of Counsel in this Cause; It is ordered by the Court here that said Cause as to the said Joseph Smith Jr , , and be removed to the Circuit Court of the County of in the Second Judicial Circuit in this . It is further ordered by the Court here that the Sheriff of the County of do and he is commanded to remove the Bodies of the said Joseph Smith Jr , , and to the Jail of the County of aforesaid, and there deliver them to the keeper of said Jail together with the Warrant or Process by which they are imprisoned and held— [p. 4]