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Account of Hearings, circa 20 December 1843 Docket Entry, Dismissal, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. Elliott–A]

Docket Entry, Dismissal, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. Elliott–A]

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Docket Entry, Dismissal, [
Carthage

Located eighteen miles southeast of Nauvoo. Settled 1831. Designated Hancock Co. seat, Mar. 1833. Incorporated as town, 27 Feb. 1837. Population in 1839 about 300. Population in 1844 about 400. Site of acute opposition to Latter-day Saints, early 1840s. Site...

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], Hancock Co., IL, 24 May 1844, State of IL v. Elliott–A (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1843); Hancock County Circuit Court Record, vol. D, p. 134; unidentified handwriting; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL.

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See Introduction to State of Illinois v. Elliott–A and State of Illinois v. Elliott–B.

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The People) Recognizance
vs)
John Elliott

Ca. 1820–3 Oct. 1862. Schoolmaster, deputy sheriff, constable, clerk, marshal. Born in Butler Co., Ohio. Lived four miles south of Warsaw, Hancock Co., Illinois, 1843, where he worked as a schoolmaster. Arrested for and later acquitted of kidnapping Daniel...

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The Grand Jury having found no bill herein it is ordered that the said
defendant

Ca. 1820–3 Oct. 1862. Schoolmaster, deputy sheriff, constable, clerk, marshal. Born in Butler Co., Ohio. Lived four miles south of Warsaw, Hancock Co., Illinois, 1843, where he worked as a schoolmaster. Arrested for and later acquitted of kidnapping Daniel...

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be discharged from his recognizance herein and that he
go hence without day

When the court dismisses charges against a person “he is said to go without day; that is, there is no day appointed for him to appear again.”

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Docket Entry, Dismissal, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. Elliott–A]
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1
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