Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Jasper Sorrell, William Runnell, Thomas Kerrick, & David Downs, Indictment

Place of Creation
Bath 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
BR43-174
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3057
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FTP Identifier
32205904

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Dates
1864-07-01
1862-09
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Jasper Sorrell, William Runnell, Thomas Kerrick, & David Downs, 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-0001-004-3057 (November 13, 2026).

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Bath Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Ky
agst } Indictment
Jasper Sorrell
William Runnell
Thos Kerrick
David Downs

The Grand Jury of Bath County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Jasper Sorrell, William Runnells, Thos Kerrick and David Downs for the offense of Robbery, Committed as follows "towit, The said Jasper Sorrell, William Runnells, Thos Kerrick and David Downs on the 1st day of July 1864 in the County & Circuit aforesaid did wilfully feloniously & Burgariously & with force of arms break open the Store House of Levi Fratman by putting in fear and danger of his life & without & against his will & consent did rob the said Store & take steal & carry away therefrom goods, Cottons & Clothing the amount and value of $150 00/100 the personal property of the said Fratman, Agaisnt the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Ky.

A Copy
Attest V.B. Young Clerk

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$2000
The Comth
vs } Indictment for Robbery
Jasper Sorrell
William Runnells
Thos Kerrick
David Downs

A TRUE BILL
J A Trumbo foreman
Comth witnesses
Levi Fratman
Travis Daniel
Jno Kembrough
Jas Nesbitt
Foward Sept 1862
J.S. Dury Comth Atty