THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY AGAINST

Willis Russell, Thomas M. Walker, Charles Walker, James Russell, Thomas Wilson, John Wilson, William Graves and Henry Triplett

Owen Criminal Court
September Term A.D., 1874

The Grand Jurors of the County of Owen in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Willis Russell, Thomas M. Walker, Charles Walker, James Russell, Thomas Wilson, John Wilson, William Graves and Henry Triplett of the Crime of Murder Committed in manner and form as follows, to=wit: The said Willis Russell, Thomas M. Walker, Charles Walker, James Russell, Thomas Wilson, John Wilson, William Graves and Henry Triplett in the said County of Owen on the 10th day of August A.D. 1874, with force and arms feloniously did willfully and maliciously and with malice
aforethought and not in the necessary self-defense of them or eithers of them, shoot and wound John Smoot with guns and pistols deadly weapons loaded with powder and leaden balls or other hard substances. Then and there, thereby, inflicting upon the body and person of the said John Smoot one and more mortal wounds and this shooting and wounding then and there
with the felonious intent to kill and murder him the said John C. Smoot and of which said mortal wounds as aforesaid inflicted the said John C. Smoot did then and there languish and immediately thereafter die.
Contrary to the form of the statue in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

W. Montfort
Commonwealth Attorney

Witnesses:
11th

S C Schooler, S J Johnston
Judicial District
Jordan Thomas, Alonzo Claxon
William Claxon, Jr. (son of Wm. Claxon
R. M. Junda, James Caldwell
Simeon McGolis, Steven Vandering