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Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Thomas Binford
Commonwealth
of Kentucky vs Thomas Binford
Filed 12 April 1839
Attest: WHH Taylor clk
Process issued 1 May 1839
PC Landon att’d
Charges:
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Hickman County and Circuit, Set:
The GRAND JURORS, duly empanelled, sworn, and charged to enquire for said Commonwealth, and the body of the County aforesaid at the April term of the Hickman Circuit Court in the year 1839 upon their oaths present that Thomas Binford of said County yeoman on the first day of April in the year 1839 in the county of Hickman and Circuit aforesaid did then and there presume to keep a Tipling House by selling & retailing ardent Spirits by the Small viz ½ pint of whiskey, ½ pint of Rum & ½ pint of Brandy without first having attained a license to keep a Tavern according to law Contrary to the form of the statute in that case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of said Commonwealth.
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Warrant:
The Commonwealth of Kentucky:
To the Sheriff of Graves County, Greeting:
We
command you to summon Thomas Binford as we have often times done before to
appear before the Judge of our Hickman Circuit Court, at the Court-House in the
town of Clinton on the first day of the next June term, to answer a certain
Presentment of the Grand Jury, against him at the April term, 1839 for keeping a
tipling house against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and
have then and there this write. Witness WHH Taylor Clerk of said Court, at the
Court-House aforesaid, this 1st day of May 1840 and in the 48 year of
the Commonwealth. WHH Taylor
Backside: Commonwealth vs T. Binford June Term 1840 Graves Cty.
Executed 3d day of June 1840.
E. Stokes DS for
JC Dodd SGC
Warrant:
The Commonwealth of Kentucky:
To the Sheriff of Hickman County, Greeting:
We
command you to summon Thomas Binford as we have often times done before to
appear before the Judge of our Hickman Circuit Court, at the Court-House in the
town of Clinton on the first day of the next April term, to answer a certain
Presentment of the Grand Jury, against him at the April term, 1839 for keeping a
tipling house against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and
have then and there this write. Witness WHH Taylor Clerk of said Court, at the
Court-House aforesaid, this 29 day of Nov’r 1840 and in the 48 year of the
Commonwealth. WHH Taylor
You
are likewise commanded to summon I.S Davis and S. Biggs to appear at the time
and place aforesaid, as witness on behalf of the Commonwealth in said case. WHH
Taylor
Backside: Commonwealth vs Binford April 1840
The within named Thomas Binford not found in my County April 8th 1840.
Joseph Smith DS for
Wm Holeman SHC
Warrant:
The Commonwealth of Kentucky:
To the Sheriff of Hickman County, Greeting:
We
command you to summon Thomas Binford to appear before the Judge of our Hickman
Circuit Court, at the Court-House in the town of Clinton on the first day of the
next July term, to answer a certain Presentment of the Grand Jury, against him
at the April term, 1839 for keeping a tipling house against the peace and
dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and have then and there this write.
Witness WHH Taylor Clerk of said Court, at the Court-House aforesaid, this 1st
day of May 1839 and in the 47 year of the Commonwealth. WHH Taylor
You
are likewise commanded to summon I.S Davis and S. Biggs to appear at the time
and place aforesaid, as witness on behalf of the Commonwealth in said case. WHH
Taylor
Backside: Commonwealth vs Binford July Term 1839
The within named Thomas Binford not found in my County July 1839..
PB Makon DS for
AS Taylor SHC
Warrant:
The Commonwealth of Kentucky:
To the Sheriff of Hickman County, Greeting:
We
command you to summon Thomas Binford as we have often times done before to
appear before the Judge of our Hickman Circuit Court, at the Court-House in the
town of Clinton on the first day of the next June term, to answer a certain
Indictment of the Grand Jury, against him at the April term, 1839 for keeping a
tipling house against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and
have then and there this write. Witness WHH Taylor Clerk of said Court, at the
Court-House aforesaid, this 1st day of May 1840 and in the 48 year of the
Commonwealth. WHH Taylor
Backside:
Commonwealth vs T. Binford June Term 1840.
Come to hand May 9th 1840.
LD Stephens DS for W Holeman SHC
The within named Thomas Binford is not found in my County June 8th 1840.
? DS for
W Holeman SHC
Warrant:
The Commonwealth of Kentucky:
To the Sheriff of Graves County, Greeting:
We
again command you to summon Thomas Binford to appear before the Judge of our
Hickman Circuit Court, at the Court-House in the town of Clinton on the first
day of the next April term, to answer a certain Presentment of the Grand Jury,
against him at the April term, 1839 for keeping a tipling house against the
peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and have then and there this
write. Witness WHH Taylor Clerk of said Court, at the Court-House aforesaid,
this 29th day of Nov’r 1839 and in the 48 year of the Commonwealth.
WHH Taylor
Backside: Commonwealth vs sums Binford April 1840 Graves
Returned not a residence of my County
March the 14th 1840.
E. Stokes DS for
JC Dodd SGC
End of Case