Franklin Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Plaintiffs
against } Indictment for betting on Election
Philip Swigert and Sandford M^cDaniel Dependants

The Grand Jury of Franklin County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Philip Swigert and Sandford M^cDaniel of the offence of betting on an election Committed as follows viz The said Philip Swigert and Lampton M^cDaniel in the county, Circuits and State aforesaid on the 5^th day of August 1865 did unlawfully wager and bet each the sum of Two hundred dollars in money on an election held in Franklin County Kentucky on Monday the 7^th day of August 1865 under the Constitution and laws of the State of Kentucky for the purpose of electing one Representative for Franklin County in the lower house of the Legislature of Kentucky: James Harlan being then and there one of the candidates for said office of representative for Franklin County and Ulin H Gray being the other candidate for said office, the said Philip Swigert did then and there bet and Wager with Sandford M^cDaniel the Sum of Two hundred dollars in money that said James Harlan Would be elected to Said

office by the voters of Franklin County on said 7 day of August 1865 and that said Ulin H Gray Would not be elected to Said office and said Sandford M^cDaniel then and there bets and Wagered the sum of Two hundred dollars in money that With said Swigert that Ulin H Gray would be elected to said office of Representative for Franklin County in the lower house of the Legislature of Kentucky and that said James Harlan would not be elected to Said office by the voters of said county, and all this while said electiion was pending and before the same Ulin held contrary to the statute in such case made and proved and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

John L Scott, atty
for the Comlth for 8^th Judicial
district
A Copy Att
W C Franklin C F C C

Commonwealth
vs } Copy Indictment
Swigert & M^cDaniel