Indictment, circa 7 January–circa 23 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Pratt et al. for Murder]
Source Note
Indictment, [], Ray Co., MO, ca. [7] Jan.–ca. [23] Apr. 1839, State of MO v. Pratt et al. for Murder (Ray Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; signatures presumably of ; docket and notation by with signature presumably of James Holman, [, Ray Co., MO, ca. 23 Apr. 1839]; notation by unidentified scribe, 26 Apr. 1839; notation by , 8 June 1839; thirty-five pages; photocopy in Daviess County Legal Documents, BYU.
did make another assault and that the said , Norman Shearer,, 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 gun powder and one leaden bullet which last mentioned gun they the said Norman Shearer Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) in both their hands then and there had and held then and there feloniously, wilfully and of their malice aforethought did shoot off and discharge to and against and upon him the said Moses Rowland and that the said Norman Shearer, , Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) with the leaden bullet last aforesaid out of the gun last aforesaid then and there by force of the gun powder last aforesaid by the said Norman Shearer, , , Maurice Phelps and the said other persons, (whose names are as yet to the jurors aforesaid unknown) shot discharged and sent forth as last aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully and of their malice aforethought, did strike penetrate and wound the said Moses Rowland in and upon the left side of the belly of him the said Moses Rowland giving to him the said Moses Rowland then and there with the leaden [p. 10]