<title type="main">Commonwealth of Kentucky v. George W. Hook, Jesse Brashers, John Key, David Grigsby & Daniel Smith & Drewry Godsey, Indictment Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 2 edits between June 21, 2025 and June 21, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-3359 BR42-232

Perry County, Kentucky Perry County, Kentucky Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Perry Circuit Court The Commonwealth of Kentucky agst } Indict Geo. W. Houk, Jesse Brashers, John Key, David Grigsby & Daniel Smith & Drewry Godsey

The Grand Jury of Perry County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Geo. W. Houk, Jesse Brashears, John Key, Daniel Grigsby and Daniel Smith ^& Drewry Godsey^ of the crime of murder, committed as follows to wit, the six afrsd. persons, did in the County aforesaid in the 12th day of Oct. 1865, unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill and murder. Nelson Moody ^Gilbert Creech^, by shooting him with Guns and pistols, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

witnesses Shode Combs & H. F. Finley Comlth Atty A Copy

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Commonwealth agst } Indict Geo. W. Hank