Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James C. Brookover, Indictment

Place of Creation
Mason 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
R4-418
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0581
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32211783
People
Brookover, James C.
Duke, John Morton, Jr.
Goggin, Lucien B.
Stanton, Richard Henry
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Mason Circuit Court
Dates
1861-07-15
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. James C. Brookover, Indictment, 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-0001-029-0581 (November 12, 2026).

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Mason Circuit Court.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Against } Indictment
James C. Brookover-

The Grand Jury of Mason County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse James C, Brookover of the offense of selling spirituous liquor to slaves, committed as follows: The said James C, Brookover on the 15th day of July 1861. at the County aforesaid, did sell Spirituous liquor to certain slaves, whose names are unknown to the Grand Jury, belonging to persons whose names are unknown to the Grand Jury, he at the time not having the rightful care and custody of said slaves, or either of them, and not have the written order of the owner, or owners of said slaves, or either of them, or of the person or persons entitled to the custody and care of said slaves to furnish them, or either of them with said liquors, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky-.

R. H. Stanton
Attorney for the Commonwealth —
(Endorsed as follows towit:)
"A True Bill-

L. B. Goggin Foreman —
A Copy.

Attest. Jno M Duke Jr Clerk
Mason Ct Ct.

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Comlth of Ky —
vs. } Copy of Indictment.
James C. Brookover —