Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Craft, Boon Hicks, and Dick Ivey, Indictment

Place of Creation
Graves 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
BR14-376
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2148
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32205032

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Dates
1865-11-02
1865-11-28
1866-01-02
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Craft, Boon Hicks, and Dick Ivey, 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-0001-004-2148 (November 13, 2026).

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Graves Circuit Court. Sct.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against
John Craft Boon Hicks Dick

The grand Jury of Graves County in the name & by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse John Craft Boon Hicks & Dick Ivey of the crime of Robbery committed as follows, Viz, the said John Craft Boon Hicks and Dickk Ivy on the 2d day of November 1865, in the County aforesaid did feloniously steal take and carry away one Rifle gun of the value of ten Dollars the property of J D Housman from the possession & in the presence of him the said J D Housman & against his will, by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person, against the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

W. W. Tice Attorney for the Commonwealth 1s J D

Information by J D Housman. Henry Ford & Ed Ford.
Endorsed.

"Bail is fixed at five Hundred dollars for each defendant

C S Marshall

"A True Bill JohnEaker ^Thomas Carman^ foreman

"Filed Nov. 28th 1865. & process 2d Jany 1866

W A Turner C g c c

A Copy Attest W A Turner c g c c

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Hicks et al

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