Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Palmer, 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
BR43-127
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3019
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FTP Identifier
32205873

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Dates
1865-10-27
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Palmer, 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-0001-004-3019 (November 13, 2026).

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Garrard Cicruit
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against
William Palmer

The grand Jury of Garrard County in the name of the & by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse William Palmer of the Crime of Shooting with intent to Kill Committed as follows the Said William Palmer did on the 27 day of October 1865 in the County aforesaid unlawfully feloniously and maliciously Shoot & wound with a gun loaded with leaden ball or other hard Substance one John Higganbotham on the farm of William Higganbotham with intent to kill of which wounding Said Higginbotham did not die Against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

M H Ausley
Attorney for the Commonwealth

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Commonwealth
Inditement
vs
Wm Palmer