Ohio Circuit Court
The commonwealth of Ky
against } Indictment
Moses Bear

The Grand Jury of Ohio Countyin the name & by the authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Moses Bear of the offence of giving loaning & selling to the slave of another, without the written orders of the owen of sd slave or of the person, who for the time being had the legal controll of the service of sd slave, & not having at the time s^d slave moreover his controll & not being at the time a physician — Malt, spirituous & venimous liquors — committed as follows viz —

The said Moses Bear on the [...] day of May 1862 & on divers days seinse, in the County afs^d did give, loan & sell to a Slave, his name to the grand Jurors unknown, but s^d Slave belonged then & there to Wm White & who then & there, had the legal controll of the service of s^d Slave — Malt, Vinomous & spirituous liquors — and without having then & there the written orders of the s^d whte or of the person, who then & there had the legal controll of the service of said slave, & the s^d Bear, not then & there having s^d slave under his controll — & not then & there being a physician — against the the peace & dignity of the commonwealth of Kyentucky

Information by — John Ford— Thos Moseley, Peter Thomas — Jno Thomas — Virgil addington —

A Copy
attest A, L, Morton clk
Ohio Circuit Court

The commonwealth of Ky
vs } selling Liquors to a slave
Moses Bear

A true Bill — Jos Leach Foreman of the Grand Jury

Filed March 28^th 1863
A. L. Morton clk

A Copy Attest
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