Order of Commitment, 11 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Worthington et al. for Larceny]
Source Note
Order of Commitment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, 11 Apr. 1839, State of MO v. Worthington et al. for Larceny (Daviess Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; certified by , 11 Apr. 1839; certified by William Morgan, 6 July 1839; docket and notation by , [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO, 11 Apr. 1839]; four pages; partial manuscript at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, and partial manuscript in private possession. Photocopy in Max H Parkin, Collected Missouri Court Documents, CHL. Includes seal.
At a Circuit Court began and held for the County of of the State of on the Eighth day of April Eighteen hundred and Thirty nine, at the house of Elisha B Creekmore in said , it being the Temporary place of holding <the> Courts in <for> said ; Present The Honorable Judge, the following proceedings were had to wit—
The State of )
vs)
Indictment for
Joseph Smith Jr and others
The of this Court having been Counsel in this Cause; and the Parties therein not consenting, to a Trial thereof in this Court, But the said Defen[d]ants Joseph Smith Jr, and objecting thereto, for the Reason that the of this Court has been of Counsel in this cause It is ordered by the Court here that said Cause as to the said Joseph Smith Jr and be removed to the Circuit Court of the County of in the second Judicial Circuit in this ; It is further ordered by the Court here that the Sheriff of the County of , do and he is commanded to Remove the Bodies of the said Joseph Smith Jr and to the Jail of the County of , and there deliver them to the keeper of said Jail Together with the warrant or Process by which they are Imprisoned and held—
State of Missouri)
SS [scilicet]
County of )
I, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Aforesaid do certify that [p. [1]]