Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas C. South, Indictment

Place of Creation
Breckinridge County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR10-24
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0667
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32203554

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Dates
1861-10
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas C. South, Indictment, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0667 (November 12, 2026).

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Breckenridge Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against. } Indict. for unlawful shooting at another with intent to Kill such person without inflicting a wound
Thomas C South

The Grand Jury of Breckinridge County in the Name & by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Thomas C South of the crime of unlawfully Shooting at another with intent to kill such person without inflicting a wound committed as follows viz The said Thomas C South in the County afsd on the [...] day of Octo in the year 1861 did unlawfully with a gun loaded with powder & lead or other hard substance Shoot at ThmS William H Hoskins with the intent to kill him the said Hoskins but without inflicting a wound upon him against the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

John Chapeze Atto for the Commonwealth of Ky. "Proterm"

Witnesses
Wm J Scott
Jno S Randolph
A G Elliott
Wm H Hoskins
Wm H Hoskins Senr.

A Copy Attest
G. P. Jolly Clk
BCC

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Commonwealth
vs } Copy Indictment
Tho C South