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.
as yet unknown in both his hands then and there had and held in and upon the aforesaid Moses Rowland then and there feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought did shoot off and discharge and the aforesaid person so as aforesaid to the said jurors as yet unknown with the leaden bullet last aforesaid from the gun last aforesaid then and there sent out the aforesaid Moses Rowland then and there feloniously struck giving to the said Moses Rowland then and there with the leaden bullet as last aforesaid on the left side of the belly of him the said Moses Rowland one mortal wound of the breadth of half an inch and extending entirely through the body of him the said Moses Rowland of which mortal wound the aforesaid Moses Rowland at the County of aforesaid instantly died, and that the said , and Maurice Phelps, feloniously wilfully and of the[i]r malice aforethought were present aiding helping abetting, comforting maintaining and assissting the said person so to the jurors aforesaid as yet unknown in the felony and murder last aforesaid in manner and form last aforesaid to do and commit, and so the jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said person so to the jurors aforesaid as yet unknown, and the said and Maurice Phelps in manner and form last aforesaid feloniously, wilfully and of their malice afore thought, the said Moses Rowland at the County of aforesaid did kill and murder against the form of the Statute in such [p. [7a]]