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.
of said county of not having the fear of God before their eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil before the felony and aforesaid by the aforesaid NormanShearer and Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are <as> yet unknown) in manner and form aforesaid done and committed that is to say on the twenty fifth day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty <thirty> eight the aforesaid NormanShearer and Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are <as> yet unknown) at the county of aforesaid to do and commit the felony and murder aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid maliciously willfully voluntarily and of their malice aforethought did stir up move abet Counsel and procure against the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the —
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2. And the jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present. That <the said> , Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and divers other evil disposed persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) not having [p. 3]