Francis M. Searcy, Affidavit
1861-09-18
- Date of Creation
- September 18, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Madison 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
- MG21-395
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1430
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209838
- People
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Searcy, Francis M.
- Pearl, Granville
- Goodloe, William C.
- Deatherage, William
- Caperton, Woods
- Organizations
- Madison Circuit Court
- Dates
- 1861-09-18
Citation
Francis M. Searcy, Affidavit, 1861-09-18, 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-0001-020-1430 (November 12, 2026).
Madison County Sct-
Francis M. Searcy who stands indicted in the Madison Circuit Court for the Murder of Woods Caperton & said Cause having been continued at the present September Term of the Madison Circuit Court because the Judge of Said Court declined to preside on the trial of Said Case & no member of the bar could be procured to act as special Judge & these facts having been Certified to the Governor for him to designate a Judge to try Said case makes the dft makes affidavit that he does not believe the Hon. Granville Pearl Circuit Judge for one of the Judicial districts for Ky will do him Justice in the trial of Said case & he therefore ofbjects to his being designated to try the case & prays that Some other Circuit Judge may be assigned by the Govenor to try the case
F M Searcy
The above affidavit was this day Sworn to before me — by the dft Frances M. Searcy — I being a Justice of the Peace for & in Madison Co —
Wm Deatherage J. P. M, C.
Searcys Case
Madison Co