Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. W. A. Dowdy, J. H. Millen, George Harrold, & Al Tolbert, Jr., Indictment

Place of Creation
Todd 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
MG24-159
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2105
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FTP Identifier
32210513

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Dates
1862-04
1862-01-10
1862-04-25
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. W. A. Dowdy, J. H. Millen, George Harrold, & Al Tolbert, Jr., Indictment, 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-0001-020-2105 (November 12, 2026).

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Todd Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against } April Term 1862. Indictment
W. A. Dowdy
J H Millen
George Harrold &
Al Tolbert Jr.

The grand Jury of Todd County in the name and by authority of the commonwealth of Kentucky — accuse W A Dowdy J H Millen George Harrold and Al Tolbert Jr of the crime of robbery — committed as follows viz. The Said W A Dowdy J H Millen George Harrold and Al Tolbert Jr on the 10" of January 1862, in the county aforesaid did willfully and feloniously and by force of arms, and violence, take from the presence of& possession of Wm B. Downey several sacks of sugar and a pistol the property of said Downey, by putting said Downey in fear of immediate injury of his person against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

J P Sullivan foreman of the Grand Jury
E, P, Campbell, Comth

Witnesses
W B Downey
Martann, Campbell

A true copy
S H Perkins D, C
For Ben T Perkins C T Cir. C

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Todd Cir Ct
Commonwealth
vs } Indictment Robbery
W A. Dowdy and others

a true bill —
J P Sullivan,
Foreman of the Grand Jury

Filed April 25" 1862
Perkins, C, T Cir, C,
No 2
Refused