Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James M. Steverson, Indictment

Place of Creation
Russell 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
BR42-201
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3352
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206121

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Dates
1864-09-22
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Citation

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James M. Steverson, 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-0001-004-3352 (November 14, 2026).

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Russell Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Plff
against }
James M Steverson Deft

The Grand Jury of Russell County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse James M Steverson of the crime of unlawfully and feloniously and with force rescuing and John Rollins from the jail of Russell County Committed as follows The said James M Steverson did on the 22d day of September 1864 in Russell County Kentucky unlawfully and feloniously with force and arms rescue one John Rollins from the jail of said county while said John Rollins was lawfully detained in said jail upon an Indictment for Murder by overpowering [Fanny] the jailer of said county at said time and place to give up the Keys of the said jail and setting at liberty the said John Rollins against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

M. H. Owsley atty
for the Commonwealth
A Copy Attest
George Bryan clerk R C C

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Commonwealth
vs } Copy Indt for Rescuing Prisoner
James M Steverson

A True Bill
J L Lapsley
Foreman
a copy att Geo Bryan
Clk.