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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 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 first degree, committed as follows:

She said Ray Raymond in said County of Spokane on the twenty-sixth day of June A.D. 1886 purposely and of her deliberate and premeditated malice, killed a certain person whose name is to the jurors unknown, by then and there purposely and of her deliberation and premeditated malice shooting and mortally wounding the said person whose name is to the jurors unknown, with a pistol which she the said Ray Raymond then and there held in her hand.

Dated at Spokane Falls in the District aforesaid this Nineteenth day of May A. D. 1887.

W.C. Jones, Prosecuting Attorney

 

Names of all the witnesses examined before the Grand Jury on the finding of this indictment:

W.D. Gillespie

Tiberius Donaldson

George Wycoff

C.S. Penfield

 

The Territory of Washington
vs.
Ray Raymond

Indictment for murder in the first degree

Filed May 23, 1887
D.A. Clement
Clerk District Court.

A true bill
William Bigham
Foreman of the Grand Jury.

Presented to the Court by the foreman of the Grand Jury in their presence and filed this Twentieth day of May A.D. 1887

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.0162.049

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