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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Walter McChesney, J. O. Hunter, Charles Hooper, & Benjamin T. Gray, Indictment

Place of Creation
Caldwell 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
BR13-428
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1860
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FTP Identifier
32204747

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Dates
1862-10-30
1862-12-03
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Walter McChesney, J. O. Hunter, Charles Hooper, & Benjamin T. Gray, 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-0001-004-1860 (November 12, 2026).

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Caldwell, Circuit, Court,
The Commowealth of Kentucky
Against } Indictment for Robery
Walter Mcchesney. J O Hunter Charles Hooper & Benjamin T Gray

The Grand Jury of Caldwell County. in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Walter McChesney J O. Hunter Charles Hooper and Benjamin T Gray of the crime of Robery committed as follows viz The said Walter McChesney J O Hunter Charles Hooper and Benjamin T Gray on the 30th day of October 1862 in the county aforesaid feloniously took dry goods wares and merchandize the property of William H Baley from his possession and in his presence and against his will by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Information given by

Wm H Baley
J R Farlip

L S Thomson Foreman Grand Jury,
D W McGoodwin attorney for the
Commonwealth pro tem

A Copy
atteste C P Watkins Clk
By F W Dabney D C

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Bench warrant to Issue and bail fixed for each of defts at $300.

R T Petree

A copy
att F W Dabney D C

Commonwealth. of. Ky.
vs. } Indictment for Robery
Walter McChesney J O Hunter Charles Hooper & Ben T Gray


a True Bill
L S Thomson Foreman of the grand Jury

Filed & noted in open Court Decr 3d 1862,
att J C Barnes D C

Issd
A copy
fee 50¢