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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Theophilas Steele, Indictment

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Place of Creation: Fayette 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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1859-1862
Box / Folder: MG8-140 to MG8-141
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-021-0049
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FTP Identifier: 32210841

Mentioned in this document

People: Kay, Albert; Rogers, Charles Fleming; Harp, David; Smith, Granville; Bowman, Henry Clay; Martin, Hezekiah; Blackburn, James; Downing James, Sr.; Winn, Jesse D.; Johnson, John B.; Norton, John B.; Moore, John; Noland, S.; Steel, Theophilus; Stone, Uriah; Busby, William; Goodloe, William C.
Places: Fayette County, Kentucky; Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Fayette Circuit Court
Dates: 1855-06-12; 1855-02-22; 1855-02-01; 1855-06-12

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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Theophilas Steele, Indictment, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 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-0001-021-0049 (November 12, 2026).

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State of Kentucky Fayette Circuit Court

Pleas held before the HonorableWilliam C Goodloe Judge of the Court for the Circuit aforesaid at the Court House in the City of Lexington on the 12' day of June 1855

~~Theo~~The Commonwealth of Kentucky Plaintiff
against } On Indictment
Theophilas Steele Defendant

(Be it remembered that heretofore to wit on the 22^d day of February 1855 at a Court continued and held for the Circuit aforesaid)

The Grand Jury Empanelled and sworn herein returned the following Indictment, viz:

"Fayette Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Indictment} against
Theophilas Steele

The Grand Jurors for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, empannelled and sworn in and for Fayette county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth aforesaid, upon their Oaths represent that Theophilas Steele on the 1^st day of February 1855, in the County of Fayette, did challenge James Blackburn to fight him in single combat with pistols, contrary to the form of the Statute in such cases made and provided and against the peace and

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dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

S Noland Com Atty

And afterwards to wit at a Court continued and held for the Circuit aforesaid on the 12' day of June 1855 —

"This day came the parties by their Attorneys, and the Defendant plead not Guilty, and thereupon came a Jury, viz: James Downing, Henry Bowman, Wm Busby,Uriah Stone, Jesse D Winn Charles F Rogers, Granville Smith, Hezekiah Martin, John Moore, John B Johnson,Albert Kayand David Harp who were elected tried and sworn well and truly to try the Issue and a true Verdict render herein — The Trial progressed — Whereupon on motion of the Attorney for the Commonwealth, It is ordered that this case be dismissed — "

True Copies
Att John B Norton Clerk
Fayette Circuit Court

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Commonwealth of Ky
Copy
vs } Indictment & Order of Dismission
Steele, T

fee 50¢ paid