Treason
Summary
A betrayal, treachery, or breach of allegiance. Against the United States, it consists only in “levying war against the nation, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort,” according to the United States Constitution, article 3, section 3. In English law, high treason was treason against the sovereign, “as distinguished from petit or petty treason which might formerly be committed against a subject.” Illinois law indicated that “no justice of the peace shall admit to bail any person or persons charged with treason.”
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- Appendix: Account of the Murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, between Mid-July and Mid-August 1844 [D&C 135]
- Introduction to State of Illinois v. JS and H. Smith for Treason
- Introduction to State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A, State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus, State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus, and State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–B
- Introduction to State of Missouri v. Pratt et al. for Murder
- Letter from Miner R. Deming, 26 June 1844
- Letter from William Clayton, 26 June 1844
- Letter to Emma Smith, 25 June 1844
- Letter to Emma Smith, 26–27 June 1844
- Letter to Emma Smith, 26–27 June 1844, Copy
- Letter to James W. Woods and Hugh T. Reid, 26 June 1844
- Letter to Jesse B. Thomas, 26 June 1844–A
- Letter to Jesse B. Thomas, 26 June 1844–B
- Letter to Orville Browning, 27 June 1844
- Letter to Orville Browning, 27 June 1844, Draft
- Letter to Thomas Ford, 22–23 June 1844
- Letter to Thomas Ford, 26 June 1844
- Recognizance, 25 June 1844–A [ State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A ]
- Warrant, 24 June 1844–A [ State of Illinois v. JS and H. Smith for Treason ]