Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Frank Story, Indictment

Place of Creation
Gallatin 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
BR11-216
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1120
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FTP Identifier
32204007

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Dates
1863-07
1864-08-06
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Frank Story, 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-0001-004-1120 (November 12, 2026).

[Page 1]

Gallatin Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Plff
against } Indictment for Felony
Frank Story Deft

The Grand Jury of Gallatin County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse, Frank Story of the offense of unlawfully taking and detaining a white woman against her will with intent to have carnal knowledge with her himself committed as follows viz

The said Frank Story in the county circuit and state aforesaid on the [...] Day of July 1863 did unlawfully take and detain [medora] Jane Kelly a white woman, against her will with intent to have carnal knowledge with her himself Contrary to the Statute in Such case made and provided and against the peace and Dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

John L Scott
Comth atto for 8th J D

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Gallatin Cir Ct
The Commonwealth against Frank Story


A Copy

remitted
6th Aug/64