The Ohio Repository reports on Joseph being acquitted of ordering the murder of Grandison Newell.
Ohio Repository (Canton) (June 22, 1837): 3, Joseph Smith Papers newspaper research files, 1977-2011, CR 100 1051, Church History Library
Joe Smith, the Mormon Prophet, was lately apprehended on a charge of employing two of his followers to kill a certain Grandison Newell, a rebellious subject. On examination, however, the fact was not proven, and he was released.