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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas Ruth, Indictment

1864

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Date of Creation: 1864
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: BR10-136
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-0745
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Dates: 1864-04-28; 1864-05-05

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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas Ruth, Indictment, 1864, 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-0001-004-0745 (November 12, 2026).

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CIRCUIT COURT.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, Plaintiff,
AGAINST } Indictment for Assault & Battery
Thomas Ruth Defendant.

The Grand Jury of Owen county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Thomas Ruth of the offense of Assault & Battery committed as follows, viz:

The said Thomas Ruth, in the county, circuit, and State aforesaid, on the 28^th day of April, 1864, did unlawfully assault beat and bruise and then and then and there unlawfully shoot at Jeptha Estes with a loaded gun loaded with powder & Shot & did then and there unlawfully assault beat & bruise the wife & daughter of said Jeptha Estes — to wit Cordelia Estes and Miss Frances Estes — they being then & there in the dwelling House of the said Jeptha Estes and under his control & protection — and the said Thomas Ruth did then and there unlawfully and in a violent & forcible manner bust open the door and enter the dwelling house of the said Jeptha Estes and set said dwelling house on fire without consuming said house and all this in the night time contrary to the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

John L Scott
Commonwealth's Attorney for 8th Judicial District.

Witnesses for Commonwealth:
Jeptha Estes
Corelia Estes
Miss Frances Estes
Salem Wiley
David Hoover
Sara Butler
Jesse Butler

Yeoman print, Frankfort, Ky.

A Copy
Attest W H Sandford Ck

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THE COMMONWEALTH
AGAINST
Thomas Ruth
INDICTMENT FOR
Assault & Battery
A TRUE BILL.
J F Hawkins Foreman.

FiledMay 5^th 1864

We of the Jury find Tho^s Ruth guilty and assess the damages at Three Hundred and fifty Dollars —

R S Bond

Foreman

A Copy
Attest
W H Sandford Ck