Docket Entry, Order for Capias, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury]

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Introduction to State of Illinois v. Sympson, Sympson v. JS, and State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury Indictment, circa 23 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury] Docket Entry, Indictment, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury] Docket Entry, Order for Capias, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury] Capias, 22 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury] Subpoena, 26 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury] Docket Entry, Abatement, 21 October 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury] Case File Wrapper, circa October 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury]
Docket Entry, Order for Capias, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury]
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Docket Entry, Order for Capias, [
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 Perjury (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); Hancock County Circuit Court Record, vol. D, p. [129]; 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. Sympson, Sympson v. JS, and State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury.
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The People)

vs) Indictment for Perjury

Joseph Smith senr)

Ordered that the
clerk
8 Oct. 1811–25 Sept. 1857. Merchant, sheriff, soldier, politician, land speculator. Born at Lower Paxton, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Jacob Backenstos and Margaretha Theis. Member of Lutheran Reformed Church. Married Sarah Lavina Lee, niece of Robert...
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issue a
capias
Latin for “that you take”; a writ or process commanding a sheriff or other officer to take a defendant into legal custody. Each use of this term is adapted to the purposes indicated by additional words used for its designation. When a summons was not the ...
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herein returnable to the next term of this Court and that Bail be required in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars. [p. [129]]
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Docket Entry, Order for Capias, 24 May 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury]
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David E. Head