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 are as yet to the jurors aforesaid unknown) feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought were then and there present aiding, assisting abetting comforting and maintaining the aforesaid to do and commit the felony and murder last aforesaid in form last aforesaid and so the jurors aforesaid upon their 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 in manner and form last aforesaid did kill and murder the said Moses Rowland against the form the fo of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the Peace and dignity of the , and that the said Joseph Smith jurnior, late of state aforesaid late of said County of and late of said County of not having the fear of God before the eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil before the 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 [p. 5]