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.
3. And the jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present. That <the said> late of said County of , Norman Shearer late of said County of , late of said County of late of said County of and Maurice Phelps 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 of there being, feloniously wilfully and of their malice aforethought did make an <another> 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 with the leaden bullet aforesaid from the gun aforesaid then and there sent out, the aforesaid Moses Rowland then and there feloniously struck giving to the said Moses Rowland then and there with the leaden bullet aforesaid on the left side of the belly of him the said Moses Rowland one mortal wound of the breadth of half an [p. 7]