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.
The Hon. Judge of the said Circuit Court aforesaid filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of aforesaid the petition of Maurice <Morris> Phelps & Praying a change of venue in their several cases; which said Petition is in writing signed by the said Maurice <Morris> Phelps & also an order for a change of venue in the several cases aforesaid Signed by the said of the Circuit Court aforesaid, which said Petition & Order are in the words & figures following to wit.
Petition—
To the Honorable Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit.
The undersigned petitioners would respectfully represent that they now stand indicted that is to say , Morice [Morris] Phelps, & for in the County of , which said Indictments are now pending for trial in said . Your petitioners would further represent, that the minds of the inhabitants of the sixth fifth and eleventh Circuits and of every County in each of those Circuits are so much prejudiced against them and each of them, that they cannot have a fair trial and [p. 38]