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.
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 in the county of aforesaid in and upon one Moses Rowland in the peace of the State of then and there being feloniously wilfully and of their malice aforethought then— did make an <another 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 other> gun of the value of ten dollars then and there charged with gunpowder and one leaden <bullet> which <last mentioned 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 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 last> aforesaid out of the gun <last last > aforesaid then and there by force of the gunpowder <last last> aforesaid by the said Norman Shearer [p. 4]