Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Richard Hawes, Indictment

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KYR-0001-029-0321

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Legal/Financial

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863

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R4-22

Place of Creation

Bourbon County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

29 November 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-11-24

1862-11-29

1863

Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Richard Hawes, Indictment, 29 November 1862, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, R4-22, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0321, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Bourbon CIRCUIT COURT.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky,
AGAINST
Richard Hawes

THE GRAND JURY of Bourbon county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Richard Hawes of the Crime of Treason, committed as follows, viz: The said Richard Hawes on the 24th day of November 1862, in the county aforesaid, being an inhabitant of and residing in said Commonwealth, in the county aforesaid, and owing allegiance and fidelity to said Commonwealth, did unlawfully, maliciously and traitorously, compass, imagine and intend to raise and levy war, insurrection and rebellion against said Commonwealth; and the said Hawes with a multitude of persons unknown to this Grand Jury, did assemble themselves together in said Commonwealth, armed with guns, swords and other warlike weapons, to be used traitorously against said Commonwealth, and did, then and there, wickedly, unlawfully and maliciously ordain, prepare and levy war publicly against said Commonwealth, contrary to the duty of his allegiance and fidelity and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

W. S. DOWNEY,
COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES:
R M Buckner
H. Hastings
S. Clay Jr
F. Troutman

A copy. Att James Paton C B C C
By Ben G. Paton D. C

Bourbon Cir Ct
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
agt } Ind & Treason
Richard Hawes

A True Bill
C. S. Brent
Foreman

Filed Nov 29th 1862
1863 -- April Filed away with leave to reinstate and Docket
A copy Att Jas. Paton clk
By Ben G. Paton D. C

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