Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Lewis F Duggins
1865-11
- Date of Creation
- November 1865
- Place of Creation
- Grayson 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
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- BR16-428 to BR16-428A
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-2744
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- 32205628
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Citation
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Lewis F Duggins, 1865-11, 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-0001-004-2744 (November 13, 2026).
State of Kentucky
Grayson Circuit Court sct
No 224C
Commonwealth Plff
vs } Indictment for Selling Liquor to Minor
Lewis F Duggins Deft
This day Came the attorney for the Commonwealth and the Deft filed a Demurer to Indictment Demurer Overruled to which Opinion ^of^ the Court Deft excepts, Deft filed Plea not guilty and thereupon Came a Jury towit: James R White, H C Thomas, E. E. Veech, Isaac Pirtle, Thos O. Hill, W. H. Parrish, Amos Stinson, Henry Kerr, Augustin Higdon, Elijah Clubb, John Cubbage, George Horn, Who were Sworn to try the issue Joined, and Returned the following verdict towit; We of the Jury find the Defendant Guilty
John S Cubbage one of the Jury
It is therefore adjudged by the Court that the Commonwealth Recover against the Deft the Sum of fifty Dollars as a fine for said offensce also her Cost herein Expended & may have Execution &C, There was appended With the verdict of the Jury the following. We of the Jury that tried the within Indictment. Resepectfully ask the Govenor to Remit, the fine against the Deft, the proof Was that, the minor to Whom the liquor was sold was at the time, a married
man, with a Child, house Keeping, and Keeping a house of entertainment on premises belonging to the Defendant, He was nineteen Years Old, So that the Deft, might have had no Knowledge that he was a minor, and Was not therefore guilty of a violation of the Spirit of the Act, but was Caught by the letter, Wherefore we ask the fine may be Remitted
John S. Cubbage, foreman
A. Copy Att Edwin Thomas Clerk
Grayson Circuit Court
By R. E. Yates D. C
Grayson Cir Ct
vs
Lewis F. Duggin
$50
Selling to Minor
Remitted
Remit
