Transcript of Proceedings, Murder, 18 July 1839 [Extradition of JS et al. for Treason and Other Crimes]
Source Note
Transcript of Proceedings, Murder, Columbia, Boone Co., MO, 18 July 1839, Extradition of JS et al. for Treason and Other Crimes (State of MO, Office of the Governor 1841); handwriting of and unidentified scribe; certified by , 18 July 1839; docket by , [Columbia], Boone Co., MO, [18 July 1839]; thirty seven pages; Joseph Smith Extradition Records, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois. Includes seal.
and Maurice Phelps, and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are yet unknown) at the said county of to wit. at the County of aforesaid to do and commit the felony and murder aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid maliciously wilfully voluntarily and of their malice aforethought did stir up, move, abet, counsel, and procure against the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the
Circuit attorney.
4 And the jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present, That the said , Maurice Phelps 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 Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-eight with force and arms in the County of aforesaid in and upon one Moses Rowland in the peace of the State of then and there being feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought did make an other assault and that the said Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) a certain other Gun of the value of Ten dollars then and there charged with gunpowder and one leaden bullet which [p. [5a]]