Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John P. Hall, Indictment

Place of Creation
Union 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
BR17-214
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2896
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FTP Identifier
32205779

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Dates
1858-05-01
1860-10
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John P. Hall, 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-0001-004-2896 (November 13, 2026).

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Union Equity & Criminal Court
The commonwealth of Kentucky
against
John P. Hall

The grand jury of Union County in the name and by the authority of the Commowealth of Kentucky, accuse John P Hall of the crime of murder Committed as follows (viz) The said John P Hall on the 1st day of May 1858 in the County aforesaid did feloniously and with malaice aforethought Kill and murder R W N Taylor by stabbing him with a knife so that he died thereby, against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Kentucky

A. P. Thompson
Comth Atty 1st J. D.

A Copy,
Attest.
John S Geiger clk

At the October term 1860 of the Union Circuit Court. The defendant John P Hall was recognised in open court in the sum of Five thousand Dollars. with George Payne M M Berry. W H Wheeler. S D Payne. James Ross, E A Clark, H Minnehoff S R Springer Leroy Thomas, J W Berry. Samuel Cooper and W G Hughes as his sureties.

Attest,
John S Geiger clk U. C. C

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