Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Ewing Forth, Indictment

Place of Creation
Hart 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
BR13-403
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1841
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FTP Identifier
32204728

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Dates
1865
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Ewing Forth, 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-0001-004-1841 (November 13, 2026).

[Page 1]

Hart Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against } Indictment
Ewing Forth

The Grand Jury of Hart County In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse, Ewing Forth of the offense of Keeping a Tippling house committed as follows to wit The said Ewing Forth heretofore to=wit on the [...] day of [...]1865 in the County aforesaid. and on divers other days before and since then and before the finding of this Indictment. Did unlawfully keep a Tippling house and that he did so unlawfully keep Said Tippling house for three months at one time against the peace and dignity of the said Commonwealth

Wm B. Jones
Attorney for the Commonwealth

Information of

W A Smith
W E Wells.
B F Hatcher.
Wm Reynolds,
F M Kelly,
Smal Renfro

Ewing
W C Wells,
Phil Buckner

Copy Att J. H. Compton C. H. C. C.
By John H Lively D. C.

[Page 2]

Is there Judgt on this Indicts by confession Dawson

yes
J H Compton