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.
through the body of him the said Moses Rowland of which said last named mortal wound the said Moses Rowland then and there to wit at the County of aforesaid instantly died and so the aforesaid Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) the aforesaid Moses Rowland at the County of afooresaid on the day and year aforesaid in manner and form last aforesaid, the said Moses Rowland at aforesaid feloniously, voluntarily, wilfully and of their malice aforethought did kill and murder against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and aganst the peace and dignity of the , and the said Joseph Smith junior, late of the County of in the aforesaid late of said County of and late of said County of not having the fear of God before their eys but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil before the felony and murder last aforesaid by the aforesaid , Maurice Phelps and the said other persons (whose names to the jurors aforesaid are as yet unknown) in manner and form as last 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. [6a]]