Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Cookendofer, Indictment

Place of Creation
Bracken 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
MG24-329
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2203
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FTP Identifier
32210608

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Dates
1856-08
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John Cookendofer, 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-0001-020-2203 (November 13, 2026).

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Bracken Circuit Court
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Against
John Cookendofer

The Grand Jury of Bracken County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse John Cookendofer of the crime of Stealing a Horse, committed as follows to wit:

The said John Cookendofer on the [...] day of August 1856 in the County aforesaid feloniously did steal, take and carry away a certain Horse, the personal property of Louisa Fields, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

W E. Arthur
Commonwths Atto:

Witnesses
Newton Downard
Thomas Fields
Sharp Foster

A copy att
R J. Hughey C B C Ct