Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Benjamin Bowman, Indictment

Place of Creation
Monroe 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
BR42-159
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3323
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206094

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Dates
1864-03-01
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Benjamin Bowman, 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-0001-004-3323 (November 14, 2026).

[Page 1]

Monroe Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against }
Benjamin Bowman

The Grand jury of Monroe County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Benjamin Bowman of the crime of Robbery committed as follows viz the said Benjamin Bowman on [...] the 1st day of March 1864 in the county aforesaid feloniously took a Horse the property of Archibald Potter in his presents against his will by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth of Kentucky

J H T Sandidge Atty
for the Commonwealth

Copy attest H. B. Marrs clk
Monroe Circuit Court

[Page 2]

The Commonwealth of Kentucky
} indictment for Robery
Benajmin Bowman
a true bill
J Gee
foreman of the Grand Jury
Witnesses
A Potter

Attest H. B. Manselle