Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838, Copy and Letter [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Minutes and Testimonies, [, Ray Co., MO], 12–29 Nov. 1838, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Fifth Judicial Circuit of MO 1838). Copied with letter ca. late 1838–ca. early 1839; unidentified handwriting; fifty-one pages; Mormons Collection, 1813–1970, Missouri History Museum.
and there were no orders given, nor was it understood that any member of the company was authorised to order any citizen to leave their homes— And further this deponent saith not
Asa Cook
At this point the testimony on both sides closed.
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.— I think I have n you have now all the testimony— informed me that your aid & himself transcribed. the testimony of . & .— if any is wanting it is ’s— but I think I transcribed that in the book you took down with you.— Below, I give you a list of the testim witnesses, in the order they were examined— if the testimony of any are lacking— I will transcribe it for you.
I remain, respectfully Yours &c O. H. Searcy
List of witnesses— for the state— , Wyatt Cravens, ’s order, Nehemiah Odle, , Maurice [Morris] Phelps, , Robert Snodgrass, George Walter, , James C Owens, Nathaniel Carr, Abner Scovel, , , James C. Owens (re-examined) William Splawn, Thos M. Odle, , Allen Rathbun, Jeremiah Myers., Andw I. Job, Freeburn H. Gardner , Elisha Camron, Charles Bleckley, James Cobb, Jesse Kelley, Addison Price, Saml Kimbel, , , , Geo. W. Worthington, Joseph H. McGee, John Lockhart, Porter Yale, Benjamin Slade, , Addison F. [p. [50]]