Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. J. H. Husbands, Indictment

1863-05-23

Date of Creation
May 23, 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
BR43-136
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3027
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FTP Identifier
32205880

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Dates
1863-05-18
1863-05-23
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. J. H. Husbands, Indictment, 1863-05-23, 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-0001-004-3027 (November 13, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
County of Graves } SS.
Graves Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against
J. H Husbands.

The grand Jury of Graves County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse J H Husbands of the crime of robbery committed as follows to wit The said J H Husbands did on the 18th day of May 1863 in the County aforesaid go in company with a band of lawless desperadoes and co-adjutors who are unknown to the grand Jury to the dwelling House of K Basford and feloniously took & carried away a gun worth twenty Dollars and a pistol worth fifteen dollars the personal property of K Basford from he presence of Mrs Minerva Basford the wife, & Miss Lucy Ann Basford the daughter of the said K Basford the said wife & daughter being at the time the legally & authorized custodians of the said property. Against the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

P.D. Yeiser
Commonwealth attorney for 1 Judical District

Witness Miss Lucy Ann Basford
Mrs minerva Basford & K Basford

Endorsed.
Bail is fixed on this indictment at

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Five Hundred dollars
C. S. Marshall

A true Bill
H. S. Anderson, foreman

Filed May 23d 1863
W A Turner c g c c

A Copy attest
W A Turner c g c c

Commlth
vs } Robbery
J. H Husbands
(Copy)