Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Champ, Indictment

Place of Creation
Garrard 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
BR43-126
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3018
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FTP Identifier
32205872

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Dates
1865-08-07
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Champ, 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-0001-004-3018 (November 13, 2026).

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Garrard Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against
William Champ

The Grand Jury of Garrard County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse William Champ of the offence of a breach of the peace committed as followeth viz the said William Champ did on the 7 Day of august 1865 in the County aforesaid unlawfully commit a breach of the peace by firing off pistols & uttering a disorderly and unbecoming manner hallowing curseing and swearing in upon and along the public highway & in a croud of good people peaceaably assembled to the great damage and annoyance of a large number of the good people of the County of Garrard and many other wrongs then & there did Against the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

M Hausley
Attorney for the Commonwealth

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Commonwealth
Inditement
vs
Wm Champ