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The State of Alabama The Grand Jurors for the said Marshall County State upon their Oath present
that Jesse Allen Daniel S Dickerson Arthur Macfa
-rlane and Alexander Macfarland late of said Cou
-nty on the twenty eight day of March in the year
of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight in
the County aforesaid in and upon the body of one
Graves W Steele feloniously willfully and of their
malice aforethought did make an assault and
that the said Jesse Allen Daniel S Dickerson
Arthur Mcfarland and Alexander Macfarlane
certain guns and pistols there and there charged
with gun powder and sundry leaden shot and
balls which said guns and pistols they the said
Jesse Allen, Daniel S Dickerson, Arthur Macfar-
-lane and Alexander Macfarlane in their hands
then and there had and held, then and there
feloniously, willfully and of their Malice afo-
-rethought did discharge and shoot off to against
and upon the said Graves W Steele and that the
said Jesse Allen, Daniel S Dickerson, Arthur
Macfarlane and Alexander Macfarlane with
the leaden shot and balls aforesaid out of the
guns and pistols aforesaid then and there by
force of the gun powder aforesaid by the said
Jesse Allen, Daniel S Dickerson, Arthur Macf
-arlane and Alexander Macfarlane, discharged
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and shot off as aforesaid then and there feloniously willfully and of their Malice aforethought did strike penetrate and wound the said Graves W Steele in and upon the right temple of the head of him the said Graves W Steele, giving to him the said Graves W Steele then and there with the leaden shot and balls aforesaid so as aforesaid discharged and shot out of the gun and pistols aforesaid by the said Jesse Allen Daniel S Dickerson, Arthur Macfarlane and Alexander Macfarlane in and upon the right temple of the head of him the said Graves W Steele one mortal wound of the depth of three inches and the breadth of hlaf an inch, of which said mortal wound he the said Graves W Steele then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Jesse Allen, Daniel S Dickerson, Arthur Macfarlane and Alexander MacFarlane [him?] the said Graves W Steele in the manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously willfully and of their malice aforethought did kill and murder Contrary to the Statute in such cases made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama
Wm. Acklen Solicitor of the fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Alabama
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(67?) State } Murder vs Jesse Allen, Daniel S Dickerson, Arthur Macfa =rlane and Alexander Macfarlane
Jesse Cheek, Wm. Collins Alexander Riddle, Wm. Griffin, Joseph Garrett Percival Bush, Caleg Rodgers & George W Allen
Witnesses Sworn in (illegible) Court Sept. 26th 1838 John A Feemster Clk C.C.
A True Bill John B Walker foreman of the Grand Jury
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67 State Murder Circuit Court Sept Term 1838 vs This day acme William Acklen, soli Jesse Allen =citor (?) and upon his Motion it Daniel S Dickerson is ordered by the Courth that a Ca(?) Arthur Macfarlane = as Issued in this case for the def Alexander Macfarlane
= endants returnable to the next Term of this Court
The State of Alabama I, John O Feemster, Clerk of the Marshall County Circuit Court for Marshall Cou -nty and State aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect Transcript of the record now on file in my Office In testimony of which I hereunto Affix my private seas of Office havi = no official Seal of Office at SEAL Office in Marshall this 31st day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, and of American Independence the 63rd year John O Feemster, Clk. C.C.
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June the 1832
State of Alabama-- I Geo W. Lane Judge
of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of
Alabama which embraces the county of Marshall
and sole presiding Judge of the Circuit Court of
said County do certify that John O Feemster
whose name is affixed to the foregoing certificate
is and was at the date of said certificate
the Clerk of said Circuit Court of said
County and thta his certificate is in due form
of law-- Given under my hand this first
day of January 1839-- Geo W. Lane 5th J.C. S. Alabama
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