Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Vince Biggerstaff, Jones Kirkpatrick & Lesley Wilson, Indictment

Place of Creation
Cumberland 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
BR42-11
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3227
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206009

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Dates
1866
1866-04-20
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Vince Biggerstaff, Jones Kirkpatrick & Lesley Wilson, 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-0001-004-3227 (November 13, 2026).

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky
vs } Indictment.
Vince Biggerstaff, Jones Kirkpatrick & Lesley Wilson

The Grand Jury of Cumberland County in the name and by the authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Vince Biggerstaff James Kirkpatrick & Lesley Wilson of the Crime of Robbery Committed as follows to wit. The said Biggerstaff Kirkpatrick & Wilson heretofore to wit. on on the [...] day [...]1866 in the County aforesaid did feloniously and forcibly take from and in the presents of Henry Pace one horse by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person which said horse was then and there the property of said Pace and was of the value of fifty Dollars and was taken against his will against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

J H C Sandige
Attorney for the Commonwealth
A copy
attest
E J Ellison Clk

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Robbery
Indictment

The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
Vince Biggerstaff &c
Filed on the 20th day of April 1866
C. P Gray clk
A True Bill
T J Cloyd
Foreman
Witnesses Examined
Henry S Pace
C. C. Pace
H C Williams
B C Greer
William Clark

Cumberland Cir Ct
vs
Vince Biggerstaff
Jas Kirkpatrick
&
Lesley Wilson
Indicted