Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Henry Mitchell, Indictment

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
BR10-339
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0872
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32203759

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Dates
1860-08-30
1860-10
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Henry Mitchell, 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-0001-004-0872 (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 Spiritous Liquor to an Infant, Committed as follows, viz:

The said Henry Mitchell on the 30" day of August 1860 in the County aforesaid, did sell Spiritous Liquor to Moses H. Hester, Said Moses H Hester being an infant under the age of Twenty one years and without the written Consent or request of the father, mother or Guardians of said infant, Moses H. Hester — against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

H. E. Kennedy
Foreman Grand Jury

Information Given by
Merriell A. Christian
Lemuel C. Glenn
Moses H. Hester

October Term 1860

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
H. E. Kennedy
Foreman Grand Jury