This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of the Subscriber who being duly sworn doth dispose and say that on the night of the sixth day of May 1842 while sitting in his dwelling in the Town of in the County of , he was shot with intent to kill, and that his life was despaired of for several days, and that [HC 5:234] he believes, and has good reason to believe from evidence and information now in his possession, that Joseph Smith commonly called the Mormon Prophet was accessory before the fact of the intended murder; and that the said Joseph Smith is a Citizen or Resident of the State of , and the said Deponent hereby applied to the of the State of to make a demand on the of the State of to deliver the said Joseph Smith commonly called the Mormon Prophet to some person authorized to receive and convey him to the and aforesaid, there to be dealt with according to law— .