Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Joseph Babb, 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
- BR13-247
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1742
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- 32204629
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Citation
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Joseph Babb, 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-0001-004-1742 (November 12, 2026).
McCracken Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
Jasper Babb, A L. Banks, Wm Wallace, E. C. Lusk Jas Newberry & W R Babb —
The Grand Jury of McCracken County in the name name by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse W R Babb A. L. Banks Wm Wallace, E. C. Lusk, Jas Newberry & Jasper Babb of the crime of Horse stealing — comitted as follows, Viz the said Babb, Banks Wallace Lusk, Newberry & Babb did on the
The Grand jury aforesaid charge, that at the time & place aforesaid the said James Newberry & Jasper Babb feloniously took & carried away one horse of the value of one hundred dollars the personal property of S Sheron and the said, W R Babb, A. L. Banks Wm Wallace & E. C. Lusk were accessories before the fact by aiding advising encouraging & persuading the said theft
The Grand Jury aforesaid charge that at the time & place aforesaid the said Wm Wallace & E C Lusk feloniously took & carried away one horse of the value of one hundred dollars the personal property of S Sheron — and the said W R Babb A L Banks, Jas Newberry Jasper Babb were accessories before the fact in aiding advising & encouraging the said theft — all against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky —
P. D. Yeiser
Coml atty
Witnesses
S Sheron, Jacob Roark
Franklin Harris
Wm Holt
Ed Moore of Graves Co
A Copy — attest
B Small Clk
By Henry. C. Yeiser D C"
"Bail is fixed on this indictment at Five hundred Dollars for each defendant
C. S. Marshall Judge
"W R Babb has been dishcarged by order of Court"
B Small C. M. C. C.
By Henry C Yeiser D. C"
"Coml"
v } Horse Stealing
Jasper Babb & others
A true bill
J. G. Cole
foreman
Filed
Bch war isd
(a Copy)