Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas Turner, Indictment

1861-03

Date of Creation
March 1861
Place of Creation
Madison County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863
Box / Folder
R4-274 to R4-275
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0484
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32211686

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Dates
1861-03
1861-03-18
1861-03-26
1863-07-10
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Thomas Turner, Indictment, 1861-03, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0484 (November 12, 2026).

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State of Kentucky Madison Circuit Sct

Pleas before the Hon W C Goodloe Judge of the Madison Circuit Court at the Court House in Richmond on the [...] day of March 1861

The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against Indictment
Thomas Turner

The Grand Jury of Madison County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Thomas Turner of the offense of carrying concealed weapons committed as follows viz — The said Thomas Turner on the 18th day of March 1861 in the County aforesaid did carry concealed upon his person a deadly Weapon to wit- a Pistol — against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky —

W S Downey
Com atty

Witnesses
Squire Lowry
Socrates Parish
Frank Ball

A True Bill
Wm Smith Collins, Foreman

1861 March 26th found & process ord & issued

State of Kentucky= Madison Circuit Sct

I James M. Shackelford Clerk of the court aforesaid circuit do certify that

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the preceding one page contain a full true and complete manuscript of the Indictment therein mentioned

Given under my hand the 10th day of July 1863 —

J M Shackelford Clerk
Fee for the Record ,50 cts,
Chgrd to Thomas Turner

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Thos Turner
Pettn to remit [...]
Refused to remit upon Judgt.