STATE OF MISSOURI, / COUNTY OF RAY, / IN THE CIRCUIT COURT / OF DECEMBER TERM, EIGHTEEN / HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE. RAY COUNTY, TO-WIT: / THE GRAND JURORS FOR THE STATE OF MISSOURI, FOR / THE BODY OF THE COUNTY OF RAY AFORESAID, UP- / ON THEIR OATHS, DO PRESENT, THAT JOHN DEVENPORT / LATE OF SAID COUNTY, / ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF / NOVEMBER EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE WITH / FORCE AND ARMS, ...DID BET A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, TO-WIT: / THE SUM OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, UPON A GAME OF CHANCE...
NP: np, nd [ca.1839]. Partially printed broadside, measuring 12 x 8 in., completed in manuscript. Signed by William Wood, Circuit Attorney. Docketted on verso. Creased from folding in quarters(as for filing), some shallow tears along edges, not affecting text; bottom quarter of broadside (containing one printed word, and the attorney's..... More