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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. George W. Hook, Jesse Brashers, John Key, David Grigsby & Daniel Smith & Drewry Godsey, Indictment

Place of Creation
Perry 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
BR42-232
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3359
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Dates
1865-10-12
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. George W. Hook, Jesse Brashers, John Key, David Grigsby & Daniel Smith & Drewry Godsey, 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-0001-004-3359 (November 13, 2026).

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Perry Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
agst } Indict
Geo. W. Houk, Jesse Brashers, John Key, David Grigsby & Daniel Smith & Drewry Godsey

The Grand Jury of Perry County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Geo. W. Houk, Jesse Brashears, John Key, Daniel Grigsby and Daniel Smith ^& Drewry Godsey^ of the crime of murder, committed as follows to wit, the six afrsd. persons, did in the County aforesaid in the 12th day of Oct. 1865, unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill and murder. Nelson Moody ^Gilbert Creech^, by shooting him with Guns and pistols, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

witnesses Shode Combs & [...] H. F. Finley
Comlth Atty
A Copy

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Commonwealth
agst } Indict
Geo. W. Hank