Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas Worsham, Indictment

Place of Creation
Calloway 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
BR42-9
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3225
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FTP Identifier
32206007

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Dates
1865-06-10
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas Worsham, 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-0001-004-3225 (November 13, 2026).

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Calloway Circuit Court
The commonwealth of Kentucky
against
Thomas Worsham

The Grand Jury of Calloway County in the name and by the authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Thomas Worsham of the crime of Murder committed as follows (viz) The Said Thomas Worsham on the 10th day of June 1865 in the county aforesaid did feloniously and with Malice aforethought kill and Murder Thomas Taylor by shooting him with a Pistol loaded with Powder and a Leaden Ball or other hard substance against the Peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Information by
R H Stubblefield
Mrs Jones Stubblefield
Samuel Stubblefield
Joseph Thurman
J. W. Whitworth

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Commonwealth of Ky
vs } Murder
Thomas Worsham

a copy