Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Sauner and George Kentner, Indictment

Place of Creation
McCracken 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
BR43-39
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2960
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32205835

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Dates
1865-05-01
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Sauner and George Kentner, 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-0001-004-2960 (November 13, 2026).

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McCracken Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
John Sauner & Geo. Kentner

The Grand Jury of McCracken County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse John Sauner & George Kentner of the offense of Keeping a gaming house, as follows — The said Sauner and Kentner did on the 1st day of May 1865 suffer and permit a game of farro & with dice at which money bank bills & property of value was bet won & lost to be played in a house under their Control against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

P. D. Yeiser
Coml atty"

Witnesses
M. K. Harris
Wm Johson
Wm Sullivan
Stanley Brown
John Stroud
John Hord
Frank Harlan

Endorsed
A true Bill
J. G. Cole
foreman"

Bail is fixed on this Indictment at Two hundred Dollars for each

C. S. Marshall
Judge

"A Copy attest
B. Small c m c c
By Henry. C. Yeiser D C

State of Kentucky
McCracken County } JohnSaunerS

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McCracken Cir Ct
Coml
vs } G. House
Jno Sauner & others

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