Description
"…comes the Sheriff of Platte County and brings into court the bodies of Dabney Jones, Albert Hughes, and Benjamin Martin 'coloreds' for arraignment upon indictment found by the grand jury and this term of court." Court appoints Judge James N. Burnes and Josephy E. Merryman to represent Hughes. Missouri Archives Judicial Records Historical Database has two records with scanned images. "Defendant accused of shooting and killing victim Daniel W. Jenkins." Coroner's inquest "Jenkins shot to death. One piece of testimony said Hughes had a pistol and said, "He'd show white people whether they would run over him or not - he was as free as anybody."" Witness statements by Austin Lewis "colored", Barnett McGinnis, Patrick B. Bennett, and Green Smith "colored." Mentions Jack Stuart, Daniel Frost, Daniel Jenkins.
https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesDb/JudicialRecords/Detail.aspx?id=469699
https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesDb/JudicialRecords/Detail.aspx?id=628105Date(s) of Creation
11/15/1867
