Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Orlando White, Judgment
1865-05-30
- Date of Creation
- May 30, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Jefferson 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
- BR14-14
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1903
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204790
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Citation
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Orlando White, Judgment, 1865-05-30, 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-0001-004-1903 (November 12, 2026).
State of Kentucky
Jefferson Circuit
The Commonwealth } Plff
vs } Indict felony
Orlando White } Deft
Orlando White who has been indicted by a Grand Jury of this Circuit for felony, and who is now Confined in the jail of this Circuit on said Charge was this day led to the bar of this Court by and in the custody of the jailer attending the same and being arraigned upon said indictment plead not guilty thereto and for his trial put himself upon the Country and the attorney for the Commonwealth likewise wherefore to try the issue joined let a jury Come and thereupon came a jury to wit: M G Holmes, Thos Parent, William Hardin, A H Gardner, Thos Bradley Jonathan Browder F McCarthy John Cross. Jno Koch Otto Veerhoff Luther Wilson & John S Long who being duly elected tried and sworn well and truly to try and true deliverance make between the Commonwealth and the accused upon oath returned into Court the following verdict "We the jury find the defendant guilty as charged in the within indictment and say that he shall be
confined in the Penitentiary of the Commonwealth of Ky for the space of one year and in consideration of his tender age recommend him to the Clemency of the Governer of the state J S Long Foreman And thereupon the prisoner was remanded and taken to jail accordingly
A Copy
Att James P. Chambers c J c c
Jefferson Cir Ct
Commonwealth
vs } Co of verdict
Orlando White
Felony
Pardoned
