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• Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
  ...ied, he may further aid his inquiries, by a reference to the record to the grand inquest of Hancock County. ..., for trespass, were all transferred to the County of McDonough. The Grand Jury found two bills against Smith, one for perjury, and another for fornication
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• Times and Seasons/1/4
  ...em, the attornies [attorneys]. As to the danger, in going before the grand jury they feared it not: they were ready and willing to go and testify to the tr
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• Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?
  ...he irrigation ditch on North Temple street, the face was swollen, and "the Jury failed to find any marks of violence on the body, except a slight bruise ne ...inement of a dusty camp, find better to do than to propagate rumors in the grand old army manner? Greeley and Wallace, by locating their informants "near Sa
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• Journal of Discourses/1/18
  ...CIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES MONROE. ...CIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES MONROE.
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• Journal of Discourses/3/32
  ...President chastised some of the Apostles and Bishops who were on the grand jury. Did he fully succeed in clearing away the fog which surrounded them, and i Not long ago I heard that, in a certain case, the traverse jury were eleven against one, and what is more singular, the one alone was right
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• Journal of Discourses/3/33
  ...igh heaven to witness his honesty before the jury. When he had induced the jury to believe that he was honest, he stood there and misrepresented the merits There is not a jury which has occupied seats in that court-house that comprehends the full scop
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839
  and on April 6, 1839, on their way to a different jail after their [[grand jury]] hearing, they succeeded by bribing the [[Sheriffs in the United States|sh
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• Journal of Discourses/5/38
  ...as taken up on a charge of high treason; and when he came before the grand jury, his enemies wanted to prove that he had more than one wife, asserting that
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• Journal of Discourses/26/23
  ...ed against the Latter-day Saints, we are compelled to go to trial before a jury of our avowed enemies; indeed, none are qualified to sit upon juries in our ...Penitentiary, because under the law we can insist upon a trial and upon a jury. Judge Howard was reported to have said that it took very little law and le
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• Journal of Discourses/26/37
  ...d something upon which to bring us before a commissioner or before a grand jury; not for any crime we have done, but because we have obeyed God, which Cong
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• Journal of Discourses/11/27
  ...in contact with. One of them, Governor Harding, was presented by the grand jury of the 3rd Judicial District of the United States Court as a nuisance, and
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• Journal of Discourses/11/53
  ...es for cruelty to animals, provided a majority could be found on any grand jury who are not guilty of the same practices. You may go to almost any place in
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• Journal of Discourses/12/58
  ...u Latter-day Saints will have no civil rights here in this Territory. If a jury is to be empannelled it will be composed of our bitter enemies. If a Latter ...them to the House of Representatives, the lords, dukes, knights and every grand character you can mention or think of, and how do they live? We know how th
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• Journal of Discourses/13/15
  ...in her halls of legislation. And all others who were indicted by the grand jury of Hancock county for the murders of Generals Joseph and Hyrum Smith, are s ...fractious hunger-cries of their children. Mothers and babes, daughters and grand-parents, all of them alike, were bivouacked in tatters, wanting even coveri
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• Journal of Discourses/20/40
  ...ernment goes. We find the same thing reiterated in the charge to the grand jury in this city, a short time ago, that the voice of forty to fifty millions o
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• Journal of Discourses/20/46
  ...it of happiness. Men express surprise sometimes at the action of the grand jury who sat upon, as I am informed, about 200 cases of polygamy and only found
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• Journal of Discourses/23/24
  ...ovisions of which "Mormon" citizens were deprived of trial by an impartial jury of their peers, and by the decision of biased judges were not only subject ...might be forgotten. Not so in these mountains. They are high and noble and grand. They are the mighty bulwarks of our God. The snows that drift upon their l
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• Journal of Discourses/23/30
  ...not aggressive, but some of the laws are very aggressive. We have a grand jury organized of some fifteen men. How many of them are Latter-day Saints? Two,
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• Journal of Discourses/25/30
  ...0,000 into the pocket of the man I allude to. That same man sat on a Grand Jury and helped to indict a man for marrying, acknowledging and maintaining his
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• Journal of Discourses/25/38
  ...used to interfere, or give any other ruling, and thus aided in packing the jury. ...and gather up ad libitum from among the gutter snipes creatures to form "a jury of the peers" of the accused with which to persecute and prosecute honorabl
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• Journal of Discourses/25/41
  ...ngs, and pursued a similar course: and while he has asked all the "Mormon" grand jurors certain questions pertaining to their religious faith in the doctrin ...nds, with every person who might possibly be his friend, excluded from the jury, without the possibility of a fair trial by his peers, not one of the panel
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• Times and Seasons/1/11
  ...cast into prison, we heard nothing but threatenings, that if any Judge or Jury, or court of any kind, should clear any of us, that we should never get out ...indictment, could be found as could be expected from the characters of the jury. Bills were found, they obtained a change of venue to Boon county, accordin
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/3
  ...f blasphemy before the supreme court of Mass. On three previous trials the jury could not agree upon a verdict. We cannot suggest a better course for the g ...after the second and third order, and laid upon the floor or bottom of the grand cavity, the two last orders of embalmed were so decayed that they could not
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/12
  ...nother dead body, which had just been taken out of the canal, over which a jury of inquest was soon to have been held. Fresh blood was then issuing, from o ...the corner of Nassau and Wall streets, which, when completed, will be very grand. The huge marble pillars, already look like the work of a nation. Strangers
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/6
  ...elight, excited in the mind, when it contemplates the perfections, and the grand operations of the Eternal Mind,-''Gratitude'', which consists in affection ...hears, and refuses to obey the mandates of heaven. We believe that at the grand assizes, all will be left without excuse, and that "God will be justified w
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/16
  ...g away as fast as possible. Some few families, I learn, have gone south to Grand River, and some others have gone east. Great sacrifices have been made: som ...against them would be of little or no use; for I am satisfied that a grand jury cannot be had in Jackson county at present that would indict them for their
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/23
  ...prosecution, against them, in that vicinage, beyond the reach of Judge and Jury, and left us but a distant expectation of civil remuneration, for the great ...ansomed of the Lord, may stand, in the fullness of joy, and vew [view] the grand pillar of heaven, which was built by the faith and charity of the saints, b
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• Times and Seasons/1/1
  ...opportunity to take my life; and that a company on the Grindstone forks of Grand river, in the county of Daviess, had offered the sum of one thousand dollar ...order to be tried for the crimes with which we had been charged. The grand jury (who were mostly intoxicated,) indicted us for treason, &c. &c.
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• Times and Seasons/2/8
  ...ectly;-to repeat lessons which they are unable to apply;-to astonish their grand-mothers with a display of their parrot-like acquisitions;-but their mental ...the excavation of a ship-canal from that point to a point terminating in a grand reservoir on the bank of said river, east of the foot of said street, a dis
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• Times and Seasons/6/14
  Presiding Elder. Since last Conference, the Grand Prairie Branch of nine members have united with this. One has been baptised ...of the Lord is increasing with a firm and steady pace; the returns at last Grand conference shows an increase in one year (besides about four hundred that h
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• Times and Seasons/6/23
  ...al prosecution, against them in that vicinage beyond the reach of judge or jury, and left us but a distant expectation of civil remuneration for the great ...med of the Lord, may stand, in the fulness [fullness] of joy, and view the grand pillar of heaven, which was built by the faith and charity of the Saints, b
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• Times and Seasons/4/4
  ...ne time told me personally, that he considered me guilty, without judge or jury. The celebrated Doctor Boyington, also a Presbyterian, was another instigat Than meat and drink to do his righteous will. Awaiting the grand consummation, will
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• Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues
  ...nsisting that only a trial of the city council members before a non-Mormon jury in Carthage would satisfy the people. ...he King Follet sermon and emphasized by President Lorenzo Snow. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!'' Our enemies have
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• Question: Why did Joseph Smith say "I had not been married scarcely five minutes...before it was reported that I had seven wives"?
  ...the indictments for perjury and adultery that were presented by the grand jury the day earlier. Thus, when Joseph affirmed during the same speech: "I am i
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• Times and Seasons/2/6
  ...entirely unique, externally, and in the interior: peculiar, imposing, and grand-Then you want clergymen of the highest mental superiority-men of education- ...eace; Provided, that the parties litigant shall have a right to a trial by Jury of twelve men, in all cases before the Municipal Court. The Municipal Court
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• Question: Does the Book of Mormon contain anti-Masonic language?
  ...ic groups, books translated in the United States, legislature bills, grand jury instructions, and works which so characterize slave rebellions, various his
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• Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
  ...ller" of the day and the leader's son-in-law, Hyrum B. Clawson, was a past grand master at floor managing, and, indeed, as the master of ceremonies, on all ...the grand jury which found the indictment against Reynolds was an illegal jury.
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• Question: Are there government records that prove that the apostles were involved in counterfeiting in Nauvoo?
  ...king counterfeit coins" At best, there is an indictment from a local grand jury, but an indictment is not proof—and, it is unlikely that indictment w The grand jury of the United States district court of Springfield, Illinois, in January 18
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• Question: Was Thomas Coleman (or Colbourn) "blood atoned"?
  ...0 here].</ref> His death was purportedly covered up by an all-Mormon grand jury.
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• Question: Was prosecution of those responsible for Mountain Meadows Massacre blocked by the Church?
  * The grand jury in southern Utah was never asked to indict anyone for the Massacre during t ...ver the application of the amnesty, with Wilson refusing to present to the jury bills of indictment. ''Harper's Weekly'' noted the conflict over the amnest
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• Question: Were Brigham Young and the entire Church hierarchy responsible for the "Parrish-Potter" murders?
  ...ing the perpetrators to justice&mdash;they were indicted by a Mormon grand jury.
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• Question: What was Brigham Young's position on punishing theft without due process?
  ...tter murders at the first grand jury of 1859, but "[t]he second 1859 grand jury handed down indictments for the Parrish and Potter and the Henry Jones case
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• Question: What was unique about the city of Nauvoo's charter and why did it anger some non-Mormons?
  ;9 April 1839: Grand jury indicts Joseph and Co. for "murder, treason, burglary, arson, larceny, thef ...ank that high until 1847). The state officials later realized that only a jury of his peers (i.e., those with the same or equal rank) could convene a cour
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• Times and Seasons/3/13
  ...ire system had twice passed away and given place to a new one: and yet the jury would recognise [recognize] an individual at the age of fifty to be the sam ...et below the surface of the earth, adjacent to the town of Lexington. This grand object, so novel and extraordinary in this country, was discovered in 1775,
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• Times and Seasons/3/20
  ...ion, which says that he should have "a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the vicinage." But the grand sequel of the whole matter is, that all the saints from Adam down to 1842,
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• Times and Seasons/4/5
  ...How much more important that the criminal have confidence in his Judge and Jury? Therefore, before the capias is issued, the officers should see that the c ...pate his suspicions. He had time to collect facts to be had before a grand jury or be incorporated in his affidavit. The court is bound to assume that this
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• Times and Seasons/5/11
  ...eads. Let shame cover our faces when we mention the name of freedom in our grand Republic. ...prejudice as to render him incompetent to be empannelled [impaneled] in a jury of his countrymen! How exalted he must appear, what a magnanimity he must d
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• Times and Seasons/4/3
  ...State of New York was presented with the copy of an indictment by a grand jury in the city of New York against John & Nathan Aldritch, for fraud in obtain ...g the horse, though it was clear the animus furandi was wanting. The Grand Jury, however, found a true bill against him for the felony, and he was claimed
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• Times and Seasons/4/2
  ...se; and knowledge vanish away. But when this shall be accomplished, is the grand question, and decides the whole controversy. Now, if a certain period is de ...exertions to promote the cause of truth. The reporter, however, had made a grand mistake in saying that Elder Adams stated that the Book of Mormon was a rec
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• Times and Seasons/4/16
  ...abe in her arms. She came in on foot, a distance of three miles, and waded Grand River, and the water was then about waist deep, and the snow about 3 inches ...went down the outside; this is a part of the farce acted out by the grand jury of Davies county, whilst they stood over us as guards, for ten nights succe
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• Times and Seasons/4/17
  ...ourt martial, in this country where every man has a right to be tried by a jury? He replied it was according to the treaty with General Lucas, on the part ...ght months old-the snow being over shoe-mouth deep, and she having to wade Grand River which was at this time waist deep, and the mob burnt the house and ev
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