Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Sanford, Indictment

Place of Creation
Montgomery 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
BR42-26
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3238
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FTP Identifier
32206019

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Dates
1864-01-01
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Sanford, 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-0001-004-3238 (November 14, 2026).

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Montgomery Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
vs } Indictment
Jno Sanford

The Grand Jury of Montgomery County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Jno Sanford of the offence of Horse stealing committed as follows to wit. The said John Sanford on the 1st day of January 1864 in the County and Circuit aforesaid did willfully & feloniously take & steal & carry off a certain horse the personal property of James Gatewood of the value of more than four dollars

Against the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

J S Dury
Cm atty
A Copy
Att
J. M. Crawford ck.
By T C Barnus D. C.

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Commonwealth
vs } A Copy
John Sanford