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.
then and there being feloniously wilfully and of their malice aforethought did make an <another> assault— and that the said Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) a certain <other> gun of the value of ten dollars then and there charged with gun powder and one leaden bullet which <last mentioned> gun they the said Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) in both their hands then and there had and held then and there feloniously wilfully wilfully and of their malice aforethought did shoot off and discharge to against and upon him the said Moses Rowland and that the said , Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) with the leaden bullet <last> aforesaid out of the gun <last> aforesaid then and there by force of the gunpowder aforesaid by the said Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names are as yet to the jurors aforesaid unknown) shot discharged and sent forth as <last> aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully and of their malice aforethought did strike penetrate and wound the said Moses Rowland in and upon [p. 33]