State of Missouri
County of Harrison

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, WITHIN AND FOR HARRISON COUNTY, MISSOURI.
MARCH TERM A.D. 1876

The grand jurors for the State of Missouri for the body of the county of Harrison aforesaid, being duly empannelled, charged and sworn upon their oaths present, that Oxley Johnson, late of said County, on the tenth day of January, 1876, at the county aforesaid with force, and armes, in and upon the body of one William C. Chapman, in the peace of the State then and there being feloniously, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, on purpose and of his malice aforethought did make an assault and that he the said Oxley Johnson with a certain double barrelled shot gun then and there charged with gun powder and leaden balls, which shot gun so charged as aforesaid, he the said Oxley Johnson, in his hands then and there had & held, at to and against the body of him, the said William C. Chapman, then and there feloniously, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, on purpose, and of his malice aforethought did discharge shoot off at to and against the body of him the said William C. Chapman and that he the said, Oxley Johnson, with the leaden balls, aforesaid, out of the shot gun, aforesaid, by force of the gun powder, aforesaid, by him the said Oxley Johnson, discharged & shot off, as aforesaid, then and there feloniously, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, on purpose and of his malice aforethought did strike and penetrate the body of him, the aforesaid William C. Chapman, & did inflict in and upon the breast and stomache of him the said William C. Chapman and divers other parts of the body Of him the said William C. Chapman several mortal wounds each of the breadth of one quarter of an inch & of the width of a quarter of an inch & of the depth of six inches, of which mortal wounds inflicted by the said Oxley Johnson as aforesaid by the means aforesaid he the said William C. Chapman on the said tenth day of January, 1876 did suffer and languish for the space of five minutes and until on the day aforesaid he the said William C. Chapman of said mortal wounds died, and so the jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid do say and charge that he, the said Oxley Johnson, him the said William C. Chapman in the manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously, willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, on purpose, and of his malice aforethought did kill & murder contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the state.

D.S. Alvord,

Prosecuting Attorney.

State of Missouri
County of Harrison

I, B. P. Sigler Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Harrison and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and complete copy of the Indictment against Oxley Johnson, for Murder, as the same appears on file in my office. And I further certify that I hereto attach the verdict of the jury, rendered, upon the trial of said cause.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Bethany Missouri, this March 19th 1904.

/S/ B. P. Sigler

Circuit Clerk Harrison County Missouri

 

State of Missouri
County of Harrison

I, B. P. Sigler, Clerk of the Circuit Court, within and for the County of Harrison do hereby certify that the following verdict was rendered in the case of the State of Missouri, against Oxley Johnson charged with murder in the Circuit Court of Harrison County Missouri.

State of Missouri Plaintiff
against
Oxley Johnson Defendant.

Come now the jury empannalled to try this cause, and return into Court their verdict which is in words and figures, following to-wit: "We the jury find the defendant not guilty,"

E. T. Baldwin foreman.

It is thereupon ordered by the Court that the defendant be discharged from custody and that he may have judgment against the Plaintiff for his costs herein expended and that the Clerk certify the same for payment.