Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Hudson, Indictment

Place of Creation
Mercer 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
BR15-67
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2244
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32205128

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Dates
1865-10-15
1863-07-01
1863-10-15
1865-08-10
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Hudson, 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-0001-004-2244 (November 13, 2026).

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Be it remembered that heretofore to wit: on the 15 day of Oct 1865 the following Indictment was found by the grand Jury of Mercer County Ky to wit:

The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against } Mercer County Circuit Court
John Hudson

The Grand Jury of Mercer County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse —
John Hudson
of the offence of Grand Larceny committed as follows the said John Hudson in the 1st day of July 1863 in the county aforesaid, did unlawfully and feloniously steal, take and carry away one horse beast of value of seventy five dollars of the personal property of William Hickman agaisnt the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Witnesses before the Jury
Harvey Cunningham S D Ervin
W H Hawkins N E Clelland
James Nichols
James Currens
W B Hickman

L H Noble Attorney for the Commonwealth

upon the Back of the foregoing are the following endorsements to wit:

A true Bill William Daviess foreman of Grand Jury

1863 Oct ^15^ filed
Richard Board clk

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A Copy Attest
Richard Board clk

The Commwth
vs } Copy Indict
John Hudson
For Deft
Fee.50

Mercer Cir Ct
vs
John Hudson
Pardoned
10th Aug 1865