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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Mefford, Indictment

1863-01-03

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Date of Creation: January 3, 1863
Place of Creation: Scott 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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1862-1863
Box / Folder: R3-49
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-033-0025
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FTP Identifier: 32212188

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Dates: 1862-11-20; 1862-11; 1863-01-03; 1863-01-12

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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Mefford, Indictment, 1863-01-03, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 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-0001-033-0025 (November 14, 2026).

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Scott Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
William Mefford

The Grand Jury of Scott County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse William Mefford of the Crime of Horse Stealing committed as follows viz: The Said William Mefford on the 20^th day of November 1862 in the county aforesaid, Feloniously took and carried away one Sorrel Horse and one Bay Horse the property of William Hinton

W. S. Downey
Com Atty

Witnesses
D^r Bresden
Buford Hall
Will Emerson
James Acre
D^r John (Kenton Co)

I Jno W. Holloway clerk of the Scott Circuit Court do certify that the foregoing eighteen lines contain a full and complete transcript of the Indictment found by the Grand Jury of Scott County at the November Term of the Court 1862 against William Mefford for Horse Stealing. In Testimony whereof I have hereto written my name this 3^rd day of January 1863

Jno W. Holloway c s c c
By Geo E. West D. C.

fee 40^cts

[Page 2]

Scott. Cir. Ct
Comth of Kentucky
vs} Indictment Horse Stealing
William Mefford

A Copy
att Geo E. West D C

Requisition on Indiana
Iss^d[Jan]. 12^th 1863

Scott
fee 40^cts
Geo. W. Toner
Agent