Transcript of Proceedings, circa 18 September 1838 [State of Missouri v. JS et al. for Riot]
Source Note
Transcript of Proceedings, , MO, ca. 18 Sept. 1838, State of MO v. JS et al. for Riot (Daviess Co., MO, Justice of the Peace Court 1838). Published [ca. Apr. 1841] in Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders, &c., in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons; and the Evidence Given before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court-House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and Others, for High Treason and Other Crimes against the State. Fayette, MO: Boon’s Lick Democrat, 1841; 159–163.
The examination then adjourned till ten o’clock tomorrow morning.
P. S. The defendants appeared before said Court, on the following morning, and voluntarily proposed to enter into recognizance, and were recognized accordingly, without prosecuting the examination any further.
The writer of this was present during the whole proceedings.
STATE OF MISSOURI,)
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County of .)
I, , Clerk of the Circuit Court, of the aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of the testimony, which it purports to be, now on file in my office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, with my private seal affixed, there being no official seal yet provided, at , the 18th day of March, A. D., 1841.