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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Charles Moore, Indictment

Place of Creation
Green 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
BR42-211 to BR42-212
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3356
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FTP Identifier
32206125

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Dates
1865-08
1863-11
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Charles Moore, 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-0001-004-3356 (November 14, 2026).

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Green Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
vs } Indictment
Charles Moor

The Grand Jury of Green County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Charles Moor of the Offence of forcibly preventing a qualified ^voter^ from giving his vote. Committed as follows to Wit the Said Charles Moore on the [...] day of August 1865 in the County aforesaid did unlawfully knowingly and forciblely by himself and did aid of others prevent and attempt to prevent William Harlow from giving his vote by arresting aiding in the arrest of said Harlow and forciblely taking him from the poles which said Harlow was then & there a legal & qualified Voter and attempted to vote at a legal Election which was then & there being held under the Constitution at the legal voting place in Election precint No [...] in Green County known as the Brewersburg precint for the purpose of Electing members of Congress of the United States and the State Legislature And said Moor then and there knowingly Said Harlow to be a qualified Voter in Said precint forciblely and unlawfully prevented and aided others in preventing said Harlow from giving his vote

Against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
J. H. C Sandidge
Atty for Commonwealth

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A True Bill
Wm S. Buckner Foreman"
Witnesses Examined
Wm Harlow, Daniel Turner & Abner Gooch
Filed [...] day of November 1863-
S. T. Wilson clk

A Copy Attest
S. T. Wilson clerk
Green Circuit Court

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Green Cir Ct
Commonwealth
vs } Copy Indictment
Chas. Moore
Indicted Nov term for preventing a qualified voter from giving his vote.