Indictment, circa 7 January–circa 23 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Pratt et al. for Murder]
Source Note
Indictment, [], Ray Co., MO, ca. [7] Jan.–ca. [23] Apr. 1839, State of MO v. Pratt et al. for Murder (Ray Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; signatures presumably of ; docket and notation by with signature presumably of James Holman, [, Ray Co., MO, ca. 23 Apr. 1839]; notation by unidentified scribe, 26 Apr. 1839; notation by , 8 June 1839; thirty-five pages; photocopy in Daviess County Legal Documents, BYU.
Circuit Court <April> Special Term comm◊◊◊ing the first Monday of January Eighteen hundred & thirty nine
to wit.
1. The Grand Jurors for the State of for the body of the County of aforesaid upon their oath do present.
That late of said county of , Norman Shearer <> late of said County of late of said County of <> late of said County of and Maurice [Morris] Phelps late of said County of <and John Cooper late of said County of and late*><*of said County of and James Gurphy late of said County of —> and divers other evil disposed persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) not having the fear of God before their eyes but being moved and Seduced by the instigation of the Devil on the twenty fifth day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight with force and arms at the County of aforesaid in and upon one Moses Rowland then and there being feloniously wilfully and of their malice aforethought did make an assault, and that the said with a certain gun of the value of ten dollars then and there charged with gun powder and one leaden bullet, which gun the said in both his hands then and there had and held in and upon the aforesaid Moses Rowland then and there feloniously voluntarily wilfully and of his malice aforethought did shoot off and discharge, and the aforesaid [p. 1]