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Joseph Smith and legal trials

1826 trial for "glasslooking"

Summary: Joseph Smith was brought to trial in 1826 for "glasslooking." Didn't Hugh Nibley claim that if this trial record existed that it would be "the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith?"

Was Joseph found guilty of being a "con man"?

Summary: Was Joseph convicted of being a "con man" in a court of law in 1826?