Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Henry Limrick, Henry Limrick, William H. Shryock, Riley Oder, and Joseph Simpson, Indictment

Place of Creation
Grant 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
BR16-200
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2626
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Dates
1864-02
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Henry Limrick, Henry Limrick, William H. Shryock, Riley Oder, and Joseph Simpson, 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-0001-004-2626 (November 13, 2026).

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Grant Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Plaintiff.
against } Indictment for Felony
Henry Limrick, Wm H. Shryock, Riley Oder, Joseph Simpson Defendants

The Grand Jury of Grant County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Henry Shryock, Wm H. Shryock, Riley Oder and Joseph Simpson of the offense of willfully and maliciously shooting at and wounding another, with intention to kill such other person, so that such other pserson did not ^die^ thereby — Committed as follows viz. The said Henry Limrick, Wm H Shryock, Riley Oder & Joseph Simpson, in the County, Circuit and State aforesaid, on the [...] day of February 1864, did [und]lawfully, feloniously, willfully and maliciously shoot at and wound J. R. Jamison with a gun loaded with powder and a leaden bullet or other hard substance, with the intention to kill the said J R. Jamison, so that the said J. R. Jamison did not die thereby — Contrary to the Statute in such Case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

John L. Scott
Commonwealths attorney for 8th Judicial Dis^trict^
Endorsed. "Filed Oct. 28th 1865."

Witnesses for Commonwealth.
J. R. Jamison,
G. W. Nichols
Charles OHara.
Morgan Simpson.
T. J. McGinnis
T. L Clark.

Endorsed.
"A true Bill — T. S. Jeffers foreman"
A copy att. N. H. Jeffers C. G. C. C.

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Commonwealth
vs } copy of Indict.
Limrick & others