Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Bryan, Indictment

1863-04

Date of Creation
April 1863
Place of Creation
Todd 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
BR43-138
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3029
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32205882

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Dates
1863-04
1863-04-28
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Bryan, Indictment, 1863-04, 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-0001-004-3029 (November 13, 2026).

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Todd Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky [...] Indictment
against } April Term 1863
John Bryan

the Grand Jury of Todd County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Accuse John Bryan of the Crime of Felonious breaking into a Storihouse and Stealing Merchandise of the value of [...] therefrom-

Committed as follows ^(viz)^ (Court) the said John Bryan on the 28th day of April 1863 in the County aforesaid did wilfully and feloniousy in the night time break into a storihouse in the possession and [Contract] of John D Black in which Goods wares and Merchandise was deposited and with the intent to Steal and did Steal and did feloniously take therefrom from Six bottles of whisky the property of the said John D Black and of the value of Six Dollars against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

J G Rouch
foreman Grand Jury

E P Campbell attorney for this Court

Information Given by
Jno D Black
Seth Black
Egbert Garth
J T Buchanan

A copy attest:
Ben Taylor Perkins D. C.
for Ben T Perkins Clerk