Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Owens, Watson Webb, John Syles, & Joseph Roper, Indictment
1861-02-15
- Date of Creation
- February 15, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Hickman County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Legal/Financial
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
- Box / Folder
- MG18-475 to MG18-476
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0635
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- 32209043
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Citation
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Owens, Watson Webb, John Syles, & Joseph Roper, Indictment, 1861-02-15, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0635 (November 13, 2026).
Hickman Equity & Criminal Court
Commonwealth of Kentucky Pff
against } Indictment
Wm Owens, Watson Webb John Syles & Joseph Roper Deft
On the
The Grand Jury of Hickman County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Accuse Wm Owens Watson Webb, John Styles and Joseph Roper of the offence of gaming upon the public highway, committed as follows (viz) the said Wm Owens Watson Webb John Styles and Joseph Roper on the
Signed
A R Boon
Pro Tem Attorney for the Commonwealth
1st J. D.
Information by
H A Farnsworth=
The foregoing Indictment was endorsed
A True bill
signed by F T Taylor Foreman
And at a Hickman Equity & Criminal Court held at the Court house in Clinton on the
This day came as well the attorney for the Commonwealth as the defendant Watkins Webb in proper person, and with the consent of the Attorney for the Commonwealth the defendant confessed Judgment for the sum of Twenty dollars. It is therefore adjudged by the court that the said defendant make his fine to the Commonwealth by the payment of Twenty dollars and that he pay the costs of this prosecution and may be taken and & c
A true copy of the record as far as Watkins Webb is concerned as is on file in my office.
Att Thomas G Poore C. H. C. C
To His Excellency Gov Magoffin=
In view of the fact that the offese charged against Watkins Webb in the Indictment is of so Trivial a character We believe that it presents strong grounds for Executive Clemency, and I Therefore respectfully ask your Excellency to remit the fine agianst Webb —
W Lindsay
Bryant V Boon
J. B. Morris
S. W. Rennick
Hickman E & C Ct
$20 } Gaming
Remitted
B. M
Watkins Webb
Issd