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Ray Raymond v. Territory of Washington. Bill of Indictment

 

Filed May 23, 1887 D.A. Clement Clerk

 

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Territory of Washington
County of Spokane}
In the District Court of the 4th Judicial Dist of Washington Ty. Holding terms at County seat of Spokane County

Territory of Washington
v.
Ray Raymond, Defendant.

Territory of Washington
County of Spokane} ss

I, Wm. Bigham, being first duly sworn on my oath of state. I am foreman of the grand jury of this court at this term [?] and of the grand jury which on May 20 1887, presented a true bill of indictment herein against Ray Raymond for murder in the 1st degree for the killing of an unknown person, so effort whatever was made by the grand jury when inevitably acting said came to ascertain the name of the party injured and who is charged in the indictment ia unknown, we did not call the witness Bradshaw who per the person indictment now the testimony taken before the police magistrates. It was stated   before us by the prosecuting attorney that another indictment had been found against the defendant for the killing of the same person in which his name was found and stated, and that name was stated to us that such indictment was after pending in this court at the time of filing finding this last indictment and that the first indictment was for murder in the 2d degree

decline making the affidavit by avice

 

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

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Ray Raymond v. Territory of Washington. Bill of 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.0162.053

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