Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Daniel Cook, Indictment

1859-08

Date of Creation
August 1859
Place of Creation
Hancock 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
MG21-320
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1381
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FTP Identifier
32209789

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Dates
1859-08
1859-08-20
1861-09-12
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Daniel Cook, Indictment, 1859-08, 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-0001-020-1381 (November 13, 2026).

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Hancock Circuit Court
August term 1859.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
Daniel Cook

The grand Jury of Hancock County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Daniel Cook of the offence of unlawfully. Shooting at another with intent to kill, or wound such person without inflicting a wound. Committed as follows. viz: the Said Daniel Cook on the 20th day of August 1859, in the County aforesaid, did unlawfully Shoot at one. [...] Hutchinson with intent to kill or wound him the Said Hutchinson but without inflicting a wound on him the Said — Hutchinson: the Said offence being done against the peace and at dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

Cicero Maxwell, attorney for the Commonwealth

Information given by Erastus Sandford. &. Robert A Higdon,

Summons for Commonwealth,
Abraham Callinder,
Tilman H Radford.,
James, Conner.
Richard Harding,

A Copy Attest
Jas E Sloneclk H C C

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Hancock Cir Ct
$100. } Recog
Jno. C. Thomas & others
Remission IssdSept. 12. 1861