Indictment, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication]
Source Note
Indictment, [], Hancock Co., IL, [24] May 1844, State of IL v. JS for Adultery and Fornication (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); handwriting of E. A. Thompson; docket and notations by E. A. Thompson, [, Hancock Co., IL, 24 May 1844]; notation by , 24 May 1844; three pages; CHL.
And the Gr[a]nd Jur[o]rs aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid do further present that the said Joseph Smith Senior usually called the Mormon Prophet, late of said County of in said State of , on the twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty three andondiversotherdaysandtimespreviousto the time offindingthisindictment, at and within the said County of , and state of unlawfully then & there did live together in an open state of fornicationand adultery with one , then of said , contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the same people of the state of
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And the Grand Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid do further present, that afterwar on the tenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousnd eight hundred a[n]d forty three and on divers other days and times previous to the day of finding this indictment, the said Joseph Smith Senior usually called the Mormon Prophet late of said County of , in said State of , <at and within the sd Conty of > with certain women to the jurors unknown, then of said County of in said State of , unlawfully did then & there live together, in an open state of adultery and fornication contrary to the form of this Statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the same people of the state of .
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Ad the Grand Juros aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid do furthr present, that on the tenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousnd eight hundred and forty three, and on divers other days and times within eighteen months from the day of finding this indictmt, at the said county [p. [2]]