Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Joseph L. Frost, Indictment

Place of Creation
Fayette 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
BR17-150
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2858
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FTP Identifier
32205742

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Dates
1865-09-01
1865-09-02
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Joseph L. Frost, 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-0001-004-2858 (November 13, 2026).

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Fayette CIRCUIT COURT.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
AGAINST
Joseph L Frost

THE GRAND JURY of Fayette county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Joseph L Frost of the Crime of Horse Stealing committed as follows, viz: The said Joseph L Frost on the 1st day of September 18625 in the county aforesaid, Feloniously took and carried away one Sorrel Mare the personal property of T E Baly against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the Grand Jurors aforesaid in the name and by the authority aforesaid accuse the said Joseph L Frost "of the Crime of receiving stolen property knowing that the same was stolen" committed as follows, towit, the said Joseph L Frost on the day aforesaid, in the County aforesaid did receive on Sorrel Mare, the personal property of T E Baly knowing at the time that she was stolen against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

W. S. DOWNEY,
COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY

WITNESSES: T E Baly,
E Foley

a true Copy — Att Jno B Norton c f c c

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Comth Kentucky
vs. } Copy Indict
Frost Jos L

A true Bill.
R J Spurr, Foreman

Returned into Court Spt 2nd 1865.

at Jno B Norton c f c c