Ohio Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against } Indictment
Moses Bear

The Grand Jury of Ohio County in the name and by the authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky — accuse Moses Bear — not being a physician of the offense of selling, giving, & loaning to the Slave of another — not under his controll & without the written order of the owner of s^d slave, or of the person who for the time being had the legal controll of the service of sd slave, spirituous, Malt & viniousous liquors. Committed as follows — viz —

The said Moses Bear on the [...] day of may & year 1862 — and on divers days since in the county afs^d did sell, give & loan spirituous malt & vinous liquors to plffess a slave. s^d Slave then & there belonged to E. D Walker but was then & there under the controll of A. B. Baird — and the said Baird then & there had the legal controll of the services of s^d slave — & the said Slave was not then & there under the controll of the said Bear — and the said Bear did then & there give, loan, & sell spirituous, Malt & vinous liquors to the s^d slave as af^sd without the written orders of the s^d E. D Walker & without the written orders of the said Baird and that the said Bear was not then & there a phyisician — against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky —

Information by
John Ford — Virgil Addington — E. D. Walker A B Baird W^m Mauzy — David Moseley John Thomas —
A Copy
Attest A. L. Morton clk

The commonwealth of Ky
vs } selling Liquors to Slaves
Moses Bear

A true Bill — Jo^s Leach Foreman of the Grand Jury —

Filed March 28^th 1863
A L Morton
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