Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James Pell, James H Husbands, Aaron Clard, Samuel Clancy, Preston Joy, Spencer Millikin, Lewis Pell, Benjamin Enochs, Calvin Freese, Alexander McCuan, Indictment

1863-01-19

Date of Creation
January 19, 1863
Place of Creation
Graves 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
BR43-135
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3026
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32205879

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Dates
1862-11-01
1862-12-04
1863-01-19
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James Pell, James H Husbands, Aaron Clard, Samuel Clancy, Preston Joy, Spencer Millikin, Lewis Pell, Benjamin Enochs, Calvin Freese, Alexander McCuan, Indictment, 1863-01-19, 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-0001-004-3026 (November 13, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
County of Graves } SS.
Graves Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against
James Pell James H Husbands Aaron Clard Samuel Clancy Preston Joy Spencer Millikin Lewis Pell Benjamin Enochs Calvin Freese Alexander McCuan.

The grand Jury of Graves County in the name & by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse James Pell Jas H Husbands Aaron Clard Samuel Clancy Preston Joy Spencer Millikin Lewis Pell Benjamin Enochs Calvin Freese & Alexander McCuan of the crime of murder; Committed as follows: the said Pell, Husbands, Clard, Clancy, Joy, Millikin Pell Enoch Freese & McCuan, on the first day of November 1862 in the County aforesaid did feloniously and with Malice aforethught Kill & Murder James Connor by then & there shooting him with guns & Pistols loaded with a leaden bullett or other hard substance and by stabbing him with a bayonet or other sharp instrument, by reason of which said Shooting & stabbing said Conner lingered and died. Against the peace & dignity of the Comwealth of Kentucky.

P. D Yeiser
Commonwealth attorney 1st J. D

Information by C H Green C. J. Whittemore Myers Neil Calvin Thomas, E Anderson S E Sander J H Richards, Newton Prence Jas Beadles W G

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Blount Wm Galloway & J. W. Stiverson

Endorsed "A true bill.
John Eaker foreman

Filed Decr. 4th 1862. & process issued Janury 19th 1863.
WA Turner cgcc
A Copy attest W A Turner c g c c

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