Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Castle, Indictment

Place of Creation
Johnson 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
BR14-85
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1955
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FTP Identifier
32204841

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Dates
1864-01-01
1865-06-01
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Castle, 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-0001-004-1955 (November 12, 2026).

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Johnson Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against } Indictment
Jno Castle

The Grand Jury of Johnson County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse JohnCastle. of the offence of Grand Larceny committed as follows, to wit

The said JohnCastle on the 1st day of January 1864 in the county an circuit aforesaid did willfully & feloniously take, steal & carry off a certain Blacksmiths Vice the personal property of Stephen Bryan & Henry Chandler of the value of more than four dollars Against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

(Sgd) J. S Drury
Commonwealths' Attorney

I Certify that the above is a true copy of the Indictment here on file in our county,

John Hawes
Clerk Johnson circuit court,

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200
Johnson Cir Ct
The Commonwealth
vs. } Indictment for Gd. Larceny
Jno Castle


A True Bill
^sgd^ N. A. Brown Foreman

Comths Witnesse
Stephen Bryan
Henry Chandler

Filed June 1st 1865
Sgd J Hawes clk

refused