begun and held at the court house in the town of within and for the County of , in the fifth judicial circuit in the state, of , on the first monday in june A D Eighteen hundred and forty three (it being the fifth day of said term month) present the Hon Judge of said circuit and aforesaid commissioned & assgned to hold the courts in said , Sheriff and clerk of said court, The returned into said court, the states writ of to him directed, executed on John W Thornton Nimerod Duncan John A Tuggle John Edwards, William Roper Solomon Frazier Moses Netherton Joseph Smith Levi Peacock William Mitchell John McCluny James Stone Thomas Drain Benedict Sheldon and Joseph L. Nelson, all good and lawful men resident householders of said , John W Thornton being then & there appointed foreman who together with his fellow jurors being duly sworn as a grand inquest and jury for said receved a charge from the court & retired to consider of their presentments and afterwards to wit on the day & year & at the place last aforesaid returned into court, an indictment for treason (the said court & jury then & there having jurisdiction thereof) <​the said plaintiff by the name of​> against Joseph Smith jun endorsed by the of said jury as a said treason as by said bill alleged having before that time been by the said <​plaintiff by the name of​> the said Joseph Smith jnr committed at within and against the said state of and afterwards to wit, on the thirteenth day of June in the year last aforesaid to wit at the city of in the state aforesaid, it having been then and duly & lawfully represented & shown to Esqr [p. [2]]