Bertie County NcArchives Court.....Jernigan, William 1837
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Source: Superior Court Record
Written: 1837

Transcribed by Gerald W. Thomas, 3/14/2013
Information included in brackets [ ] added by transcriber.
Source:  North Carolina State Archives, Bertie County Criminal Papers,
CR.010.326.5, folder 1830-1837

State
  vs.                 Murder
King Mitchell
Edward B. Dudley, Governor, Prosecutor

Witnesses
Elizabeth Newbern
William Newbern
Jarvis B. Morris
Nathaniel Jernigan 

Sworn & sent    W. Reed, Clk.
A True bill [of indictment]   
  Thomas Collins
      Foreman [of grand jury]

Elizabeth Newbern
William Newbern
John Perry
Jarvis B. Morris
Nathaniel Jernigan
Martin White
George Morris


State of North Carolina				Superior Court of Law
   Bertie County					Term 3rd Monday of September 1837
	The jurors for the State upon their oath present, that King Mitchell, late of
the County of Bertie in the State of North Carolina, labourer, not having the
fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of
the devil, on the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand and
eight hundred and thirty seven, with force and arms in the County aforesaid, in
and upon one William Jernigan, in the presence of God and the State, then and
there being, feloniously, willfully and of his makin[g] aforethought, did make
an assault; and that the said King Mitchell, with both his hands and feet, the
said William Jernigan to and against a plank floor, then and there feloniously,
wil[l]fully, and of his makin[g] aforethought, did cast and throw; and that the
said King Mitchell with both the hands and feet of him the said King Mitchell,
then and there, and whilst the said William Jernigan was so lying upon the plank
floor, the said William Jernigan in and upon the head, right breast, left
breast, right side, left side, right shoulder, left shoulder, back[,] stomach,
neck and face of him the said William Jernigan, then and there feloniously,
wil[l]fully and of his makin[g] did strike, beat and kick, giving to the said
William Jernigan, then and there, as well by the casting and throwing of him the
said William Jernigan to the plank floor, as aforesaid, as also by striking,
beating and kicking the said William Jernigan  in and upon the head, right
breast, left breast, right side, left side, right shoulder, left shoulder, back,
stomach, neck and face of him the said William Jernigan with both the hands and
feet of him the said King Mitchell in manner aforesaid several mortal bruises in
and upon the head, right breast, left breast, rights side, left side, right
shoulder, left shoulder, back, stomach, neck and face of him the said William
Jernigan; of which said several mortal bruises, the said William Jernigan from
the said tenth day of April in the year aforesaid, until the seventeenth day of
the same month of April in the year aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, did
languish and languishing did live, in [until?] which  said seventeen day of
April in the year aforesaid, the said William Jernigan, in the County aforesaid,
of the said mortal bruises died: and as the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said King Mitchell the said William Jernigan in
manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wil[l]fully, and of his makin[g]
aforethought did kill and murder: against the peace and dignity of the State.
							Malachi Haughton
								Solicitor


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