Belmont County OhArchives History .....First Murder Trial In Belmont Co 
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ca 1804....Jonathan Meigs, Samuel Huntington and Wm Spriggs were on the 
bench.
        The grand jury was composed of Elias Ellis, foreman, Francis Bowen, 
Valentine Ault, George DeLong, Edward Milliner, Samuel Brown, John Bradshaw, 
Risson Masters, John Boyd, Joshua Hatcher, Arthur Morrison, Michael Carrol 
and Edward Bryson.
         A jury was impaneled consisting of Levi Okey, Andrew Marshall, John 
Dungan, Moses Given, John Nichol, James E. Newell, Arch McElroy, Wm. Hulse, 
Robert Giffin, Benjamin Masters, Wm. Woods and Isaac Hogue.
         Jacob Nagle was appointed as prosecutor, and the jury brought in a 
unique verdict -  "not guilty of murder, only guilty of feloniously killing the
said John Holdz."  Sunderland was sentenced to pay all the costs and be burned
upon his hand...the burning took place at the scene of the murder, on main 
Street, St Clairsville, just west of the court house! 


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