Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Elisha Hedden, Indictment

Place of Creation
Spencer 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
BR15-205
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2318
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FTP Identifier
32205202

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Dates
1865-09
1864-09
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Elisha Hedden, 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-0001-004-2318 (November 13, 2026).

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Spencer Circuit Court
September Term A D 1865
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
Elisha Hedden

The Grand Jury of Spencer County in the name and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Accuse Elisha Hedden of the Crime of Robbery Committed as follows The said Elisha Hedden in the aforesaid Spencer County on the [...] day of September A D 1864 wilfully wickedy feloniously and of his malice aforethought by violence did take and Carry away One double barelled shot gun worth thirty Dollars and one revolving pistol worth twenty Dollars the property of Anderson Rice from the possession presence and Custody of the Said Rice against his will and consent & by putting the said Rice in great fear of Some Serious & immediate injury to his life and limb & liberty at the hands of the Said Hedden against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

J R Dupuy
Comm. Atty

Oliver Tichener
Anderson Rice
Thos Tichener
J T. Rice

A Copy Test
Thos J Barker clk

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Commonwealth of Ky
vs } Indictment
Elisha Hedden
copied for wife fee 23 cts
Test Thos J Barker clk
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