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.
abetting Comforting and Maintaining the aforesaid to do and Commit the felony and aforesaid in form aforesaid and So the jurors aforesaid upon thire oath aforesaid do Say that the Said and Maurice Phelps and the Said Other persons (whose names are as yet to the Jurors aforesaid unknown.) then and there feloniously wilfully and of their Malice aforethought did kill and murder the Said Moses Rowland against the form of the Statute in Such case made & provided & against the Peace and dignity of the , And that Joseph Smith Junior Late of Said County of late of Said County of and late of said County of not having the fear of God before their eyes but being moved and Seduced by the instigation of the Devil before felony and murder aforesaid by the aforesaid , and Maurice Phelps. and the Said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) in Manner and form aforesaid done and Committed that is to Say on the Twenty fifth day of October in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight the aforesaid and Maurice Phelps and the Said other persons (whose names to the jurors [p. 4]