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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. J. H. Husbands & Frank Wilkinson, Indictment

1863-05-22

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Date of Creation: May 22, 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: BR43-137
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-3028
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FTP Identifier: 32205881

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Dates: 1863-05-18; 1863-05-22

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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. J. H. Husbands & Frank Wilkinson, Indictment, 1863-05-22, 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-0001-004-3028 (November 13, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
County of Graves } Sct.
Graves Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against
J H Husbands & Frank Wilkinson

The Grand Jury of Graves County in the name & by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky J H Husbands & Frank Wilkinson of the crime of Robbery committed as follows viz. The s^d J H Husbands & Frank Wilkinson did on the 18^th day of May 1863 in the County aforesaid feloniously make an assault in and upon J M Adams & him the said J M Adams in bodily fear and danger of his life then and there feloniously did put and [...] rifle gun of the value of twenty Dollars and one pair of boots of the value of five dollars of the goods and chattel & personal property of the said J M Adams then & there feloniously and violently did steal take & carry away Against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

P. D. Yeiser
Commonwealth attorney for 1^st Judicial District

Information by Miss H J Adams. Mrs. J. M. Adams. J M Adams J E Adams & H L Anderson

Endorse
Bail is fixed on this indictment at Eight Hundred Dollars for each defendant
C S. Marshall

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A true Bill
H. S. Anderson, Foreman

Filed May 22^d 1863
WA Turner C G C C

A Copy attest
W A Turner c g c c

Comlth
vs } Robbery
Husbands et al
(Copy)