Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Clemons and Pickney Clemons, Indictment

Place of Creation
Livingston 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
BR41-225
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3178
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FTP Identifier
32205975

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Dates
1861-12-25
1862-03-29
1862-04-14
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Clemons and Pickney Clemons, 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-0001-004-3178 (November 13, 2026).

[Page 1]

Livingston Circuit Court.
Commonwealth of Kentucky. }
vs.
Wm Clemons and Pinckney Clemons }

The Grand Jury of Livingston County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Wm Clemons and Pinckney Clemons of the crime of shooting & stabbing James Bozeman with intent to Kill committed as follows. to-wit the said William Clemons and Pinckney Clemons on the 25th day of December 1861. in the County Aforesaid went to the house of James Bozeman and then and there did assault & beat the said Bozeman and then and there did willfully & maliciously shoot and wound said Bozeman and cut and stab him so that of sd wounds inflicted by shooting with a gun and cutting with a Knife both of which were deadly weapons he was in great danger of his life but of sd wounds. he did not die and other great wrongs then and there did assault the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Jno= T= Bunch
atty pro tem court.

James Bozeman
David Elington
Wm Bozeman &
Kelty Bozeman
Not of the Grand Jury.

A Copy Att.
John= W= Webb. D=C.
For James= W= Gade C. L. C. C.

[Page 2]

Bail is fixed on this indictment at the sum of $1000, for each of the Defts.

W P Fowler
Judge

A Copy Att. J= W= Webb. D. C.
premature

Livingston C C. C C
Comth of Ky
vs }
Wm Clemons & Pinckney
Clemons.
A True Bill
W=M= Gray
Foreman
Filed & noted March 29th 1862, att. J. W. Cade Clk
B. M. & [...] iisd April 14th, 1862.
att. J. W. Cade Clk
A Copy. att.
J. W. Webb D. C.