Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Samuel Woods, Indictment

Place of Creation
Bourbon 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
BR42-147
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3314
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206088

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Dates
1860-04-20
1860-04-21
1860-07
1860-10
1861-04
1861-10
1862-04
1863-04
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Samuel Woods, 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-0001-004-3314 (November 13, 2026).

[Page 1]

Bourbon CIRCUIT COURT.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
AGAINST }
Samuel Woods

THE GRAND JURY of Bourbon county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Samuel Woods of the offence of Disorderly house committed as follows, viz: The said Samuel Woods of the 20th day of April 1860 in the county aforesaid, and on divers other days and times in said County did keep, and still keeps an a certain ill-governed and disorderly house in which he permits divers persons young & old to assemble & remain, drinking, tippling card playing, carousing, shouting yelling cursing swearing & misbehaving themselves in divers other disorderly obstreperous and improper ways to the great annoyance and disturbance of divers good citizens of this Commonwealth and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

W. S. DOWNEY,
COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY.
WITNESSES:
A Copy att James Patron C. B. C. C.

[Page 2]

The Commonwealth of Ky
vs } Indictment Dis House
Samuel Woods

A True Bill
N A. Rogers Foreman
Filed April 21st 1860
July- Continued
Oct "
1861 Apr- "
" Oct- "
1862 Apr- Bail bond forsd
1863 Apr- Continued
— duly filed away with leave to re-docket
A Copy
Att James Paton clk