Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. E. C. Lusk et al., Indictment

Place of Creation
McCracken 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
BR13-245
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1740
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FTP Identifier
32204627

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Dates
1865-04-14
1865-04-26
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. E. C. Lusk et al., 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-0001-004-1740 (November 12, 2026).

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McCracken Circuit Court
Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
E. C. Lusk Jas Newberry Wm Wallace, W R Babb A. L. Banks & Jasper Babb

The Grand Jury of McCracken County in the name & by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse E C Lusk Jas Newberry Wm Wallace, W R Babb, A. L. Banks & Jasper Babb of the crime of Horse stealing committed as follows, Viz. The said Lusk Newberry Wallace Babb Banks & Babb did no the 14th day of April 1865 in the county aforesaid feloniously take and carry away one horse of the value of one hundred dollars the personal property of Franklin Harris — The Grand Jury aforesaid charge that at the time and place aforesaid the said E. C. Lusk & A L Banks took and carried away one horse of the value of one hundred dollars the personal property of Franklin Harris & the said Jas Newberry Wm Wallace W R Babb & Jasper Babb were accessories before the fact by aiding abetting counselling & encouraging the said theft — The Grand Jury aforesaid charge that at the time and place aforesaid the said Jas Newberry Wm Wallace & Jasper Babb feloniously took & carried away one horse of the value of one hundred dollars the personal property of Franklin Harris & the said E C Lusk. W. R Babb & A. L. Banks were acessories before the fact by counselling aiding abetting & encouraging & advising in the said theft — all against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

P D Yeiser, Coml atty

Witnesses
WmHull, Franklin Harris
Sterling Sheron Jacob Roark
Ed Moore of Graves Co

A Copy — attest
B Small clk
By H. C. Yeiser D C

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"Bail is fixed on this indictment at Five hundred dollars for each deft

C. S. Marshall Judge"

"W R Babb ^has been^ discharged by order of court —

B Small Clk
By H C Yeiser D. C"

McCracken Cir Ct
Coml
v } Horse stealing
E. C. Lusk & others

A true bill
J G Cole
foreman

Filed 26th April 1865
Bch Wart

E Moore

Copy
Clkfee340.cts