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.
Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names are as yet to the jurors aforesaid unknown) shot discharged and sent forth as <last last> aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully and of their malice aforethought did strike penetrate and wound the said Moses Rowland in and upon the <left> right side of the belly of him the said Moses Rowland giving to him the said Moses Rowland then and there with the leaden bullet <last last> aforesaid so as <last last> aforesaid by them the said Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) shot discharged and sent forth out of the gun <last last> aforesaid by force of the gun powder <last last> aforesaid in and upon the said left side <of the belly> of him the said Moses Rowland one <other other> mortal wound of the breadth of half an inch and extending entirely through the body of him the said Moses Rowland of which said <last named> mortal wound <last aforesaid> the said Moses Rowland then and there to wit at the county of aforesaid instantly died, and so the aforesaid Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) The aforesaid Moses Rowland at the County of aforesaid on the day and year aforesaid in manner and form <last last> aforesaid did kill feloniously voluntarily wilfully and of their malice aforethought did kill and against [p. 5]