Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Henry Mitchell, Indictment

1864-10

Date of Creation
October 1864
Place of Creation
Todd 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
BR10-337
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0870
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32203757

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Dates
1864-08-20
1864-10
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Henry Mitchell, Indictment, 1864-10, 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-0001-004-0870 (November 12, 2026).

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Todd Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against } Indictment
Henry Mitchell

The Grand Jury of Todd County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: accuse Henry Mitchell of the offence of Selling Spritous Liquor to an infant. Committed as follows viz: The Said Henry Mitchell on the 20" day of August 1864 and at divers other times before and Since that time in the County aforesaid did Sell Spiritous Liquor to John Hester,, Said John Hester at the time being an infant under twenty one years of age and without the written consent or request of the Father or Guardian of said infant. John Heter against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth

W. E. Kennedy

Information given by Merritt. A. Christian Lemuel C. Glenn, John Hester

October Term 1864

A copy attest
Ben T. Perkins Jr D. C.
for Ben T. Perkins C. T. C. C.

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Commonwealth of Ky
vs } copy of indictment
Henry Mitchell

A True Bill
U. C. Kennedy
Foreman Grand Jury