002

Territory of Utah
Beaver County
S.S.

In the Second
Judicial District Court of the Territory of
Utah

The People &c
vs
John D. Lee Wm H. Dame
Isaac C. Haight et al

Indictment for
murder committed
September 16th 1857.

Salt Lake County S.S.

George A. Smith, having
been first duly sworn, depose and says- that
he is aged fifty eight years: that he is
now, and has been for several months suffer-
ing from a severe and dangerous illness of
the head and lungs, and that to attend the
Court at Beaver, in the present condition
of his health, would in all probability end
his life.

Deponent further saith that he
had no military command during the year
1857. nor any other official position, except
that of one of the Twelve Apostles of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.

Deponent further saith that he
never in the year 1857. at Parowan or else-
where attended a council where Wm H. Dame