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Ray Raymond v. Territory of Washington. Indictment

 

District Court for the Fourth Judicial District of Washington Territory, holding terms at Spokane Falls.

The Territory of Washington
vs.
Ray Raymond

Ray Raymond is accused by the Grand Jury of the Territory of Washington, for the County of Spokane, by this indictment, of the crime of murder in the second degree, committed as follows:

She, said Ray Raymond, in said county of Spokane, in the Territory of Washington, on the Twenty Sixth day of June A.D. 1886 feloniously, purposely and maliciously killed James Finch by then and there feloniously purposely and maliciously, shooting and mortally wounding the said James Finch, with a pistol which she   the said Ray Raymond then and there held in her hand, of which mortal wounding the said James Finch then and there died.

Dated at Spokane Falls, in the District aforesaid this first day of December A.D. 1886.

S.C. Hyde Prosecuting Attorney

Names of witnesses who testified before the Grand Jury:

W.D. Gillepsie
Herbert Bolster
Ralph L. Clark
Charles T. Vagon
John F. Hermanway
C.S. Penfield
W.D. Webb
George D. Painley
J. Kennedy Short

 

No. 1886

The Territory of Washington
vs.
Ray Raymond

Indictment for murder in the second degree

Found at the instance of W.D. Gillepsie

A true Bill follows

J.W. Stover[?] Foreman of the Grand Jury

Presented to the Court by the foreman of the Grand Jury in their presence and filed this First day of December A.D. 1886 D.A. Clement, Clerk

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Ray Raymond v. Territory of Washington. Indictment.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 24, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0162.029

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