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Carthage Conspiracy Trial Transcript

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The Hancock County Courthouse, scene of the Carthage Conspiracy Trial

Opening Statements

Opening statement for the prosecution (Josiah Lamborn)
Opening statement for the defense (Colonel William Richardson)

Prosecution Witnesses

Jonas Hobbart
John Peyton
George Walker
Franklin A. Worrell
Mr. Baldwin (no first name in transcript)
Lawyer Backman (no first name in transcript)
Camfield Hamilton
Eli H. Wilson
William M. Daniels
John Wilson
Thomas Barnes
Eli Walker
Thomas Dickson
Eliza Jane Graham
Benjamin Brackenbury

Defense Witnesses

William Smith
James Reynolds
Larkin Scott
Derrick Fuller
John Pike
John Carlisle
Coalman Garrat
James L. Gill
George Seabole
Charles Andrews
George McLean
Abraham Chatenden
Mr. Bedell (no first name in transcript)
John W. Williams
Captain Gold
Thomas L. English
Ann Fleming

Defense Summations

Calvin Warren
Onias C. Skinner
Orville H. Browning

Prosecution Summation

Josiah Lanborn

Jury Instructions

Jury Instructions

Verdict

Home Trial Account

Other Resources

  • The Carthage Conspiracy Trial: An Account
  • "Better to Smash Than to Live": The Order to Destroy the Nauvoo Expositor
  • "Like a Lamb to the Slaughter": The Arrest of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
  • An Eyewitness Account by John Taylor, Church Elder
  • An Eyewitness Account by William M. Daniels
  • Meet the Defendants in the Carthage Conspiracy Trial
  • Carthage Conspiracy Trial Transcript
  • Trial Aftermath
  • The Carthage Conspiracy ("Joseph Smith Murder") Trial: Links & Bibliography
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