Docket Entry, Discharge, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication]

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Introduction to State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication Indictment, circa 22 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Docket Entry, Indictment, 23 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Docket Entry, Discharge, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Indictment, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Docket Entry, Indictment, 24 May 1844–A [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Docket Entry, Indictment, 24 May 1844–B [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Subpoena, 27 May 1844–A [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Subpoena, 27 May 1844–B [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Docket Entry, Recognizance, 27 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Case File Wrapper, circa May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Capias, 22 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication] Docket Entry, Abatement, 21 October 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication]
Docket Entry, Discharge, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication]
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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. JS for Adultery and Fornication (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); Hancock County Circuit Court Record, vol. D, p. 128; handwriting of
David E. Head
27 Apr. 1818–1 May 1877. Clerk, merchant. Born in Washington Co., Kentucky. Moved to Macomb, McDonough Co., Illinois, ca. 1834. Deputy clerk of McDonough Co. Deputy clerk of Hancock Co., Illinois, circuit court, by 16 May 1843. Clerk of Hancock Co. Circuit...
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; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL.

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See Introduction to State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication.
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The People of the State of
Illinois
Became part of Northwest Territory of U.S., 1787. Admitted as state, 1818. Population in 1840 about 480,000. Population in 1845 about 660,000. Plentiful, inexpensive land attracted settlers from northern and southern states. Following expulsion from Missouri...
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) Indictment for Adultery & Fornication

vs)

Joseph Smith Senr

This day came the States attorney and says that he is unwilling farther to prosecute this suit on the Indictment found herein heretofore whereupon it is ordered that the said defendant be discharged 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, Discharge, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Adultery and Fornication]
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