Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William May, Indictment

Place of Creation
Breckinridge 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
BR43-152
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3040
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FTP Identifier
32205893

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Dates
1862-05
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William May, 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-0001-004-3040 (November 13, 2026).

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Breckinridge Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Plaintiff
against } Indict
William May Defendant

The Grand Jury of Breckenridge County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse William May of the offense of permitting divers persons to play divers games with cards in a house which he then and there was occupying and had the control of, and at which games, money and property were bet won and losst, committed as follows, viz

The said William May in the [...] day of May 1862 & on five days since, in the County aforesaid, unlawfully permitted William Hannah, William Hanny, John Hannah, John Hanny, Hillary Mattingly, Samuel Bud, Joseph R Pulliam, himself, and others whose names in the Grand Jury aforesaid are unknown to play divers games with cards in a house which was then & there occupied by the said May & under his control and at which ^games^ money and other property were bet, won and lost, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky-

Information by
Wm. Hanny
Joseph R Pulliam
Summon for the Commonwealth, Hillery Mattingly and Samuel Beard.

A Copy Attest: Gideon P Jally Clerk B C C
By Geo H Jolly D C

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Commonwealth
vs. } Copy of Indict
William May.

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