Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Peter Wilkins, Indictment

Accession Number

KYR-0001-029-0438

Document Genre

Legal/Financial

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863

Item Location

R4-204 to R4-205

Place of Creation

McCracken County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

n.d.

Dates Mentioned

1861-01

1860-07-25

1860-07-24

1863-06-20

State of Kentucky
M^cCracken Equity & Criminal Court } January Term 1861
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
Peter Wilkins

The Grand Jury of M^cCracken County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Peter Wilkins of the offence of Retailing spirituous liquors to be drank at the place of sale

Committed as follows to wit
the said Peter Wilkins on the 25^th day of July 1860 in the county aforesaid and in an open space and near the Rail Road and at or near the spring on Doct. Rawleys Land in said County Did sell without lawful authority spiritous liquors which were then and there drunk on or adjacent to the premises where sold- against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Kentucky

Information by
G, W, Woolfolk
J, Ensly
Joseph Campbell

R, S, Ratcliffe Commonwealths attorney pro tem 1^st Judicial District Equity & Crim-

A. D, Hall
T. R, Bell

inal Court

Upon which finding of the Jury the following judgement was rendered

Comlth of Ky. Plaintiff
against
Peter Wilkins Defendant

The parties appeared by their attorneys and the Deft, filed his plea of not guilty and therepupon the following Jurorss, viz L, D, Roberts W^m P. Allen Tho^s Moore G. W, Thompson J. B. Galbreth, J. H, Martin Sam^l Brance J. W. Cobbs & Y. J, Burchett, (the parties agree to submit the case to nine Jurors) and having heard the evidence returned the following verdict

"We of the Jury find the Deft. guilty as charged in the within indictment

Jno B, Galbreth

It is therefore adjudged by the Court that the Deft, make his fine to the Commonwealth by the payment of Twenty Dollars and also the cost of this prosecution and execution is awarded & c,

Copies
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M^cCracken Eq. Ct.

Commonwealth
vs } Retailing in open space
Peter Wilkins

$20 } Liquor

A True Bill
R. C. Woolfolk
Foreman
Filed 24^th July 1860

In consideration of the good character & poverty of Wilkins one half the fine remitted

J F Robinson

(Send to Doct Duke)

Iss^dJune 20, 1863.

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