Transcript of Proceedings, 24 May 1839 [State of Missouri v. Pratt et al. for Murder]
Source Note
Transcript of Proceedings, , Ray Co., MO, 24 May 1839, State of MO v. Pratt et al. for Murder (Ray Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); unidentified handwriting; forty-one pages; photocopy in Daviess County Legal Documents, BYU. Includes seal.
appointed foreman who together with his fellow Jurors being duly sworn as the law. requires as a grand inquest for the State of and for the body of the County of after having received their charge from the Court: returned to consider of their presentments”
And after wards to wit on wednesday the 24th day of April 1839. at the same Court began & held as aforesaid the Grand jury aforesaid returned in to Court the following Bill of Indictment which is in the words and figures following to wit—
State of Missouri)
Circuit Court April Term Eighteen hundred & thirty nine—
County of )
to wit
<1> The Grand jurors for the State of for the body of the County of aforesaid upon their oaths do present. That late of said County of , late of Said County of and Maurice [Morris] 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 [p. 2]