Contributed by Mary Hatton, 3/2007
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March
Term; March 16th, 1915
State
of Kentucky County of Bourbon} Sct.
Commonwealth Versus Mrs. Mattie Current Redmon}
Idiot
This day
Geo. Batterton, Attorney for the
Commonwealth, filed an information as follows,
to-wit: To: Hon. Robt. L. Stout, Judge of the
Bourbon Circuit Court: I am reliably informed
that Mrs. Mattie Current Redmon is a person
of unsound mind and a Lunatic and therefore
ask that a Jury be impaneled to pass upon the
subject.
George
Batterton County Attorney Bourbon Court.
Ordered
by the Court, That O. T. Hinton Esq., an
Attorney of this court, be and he is hereby
appointed to defend for and on behalf of the person
under trial.
To
inquire, etc., comes a jury to-wit: B. F.
Skillman, J. T. Jefferson, Everett Hopkins, J. N.
Mason, Russell Parnell, Virgil Barton, Joe Bodkins,
Tillone Vicmont, J. A. Thaxton, J. A. Ralls, Robt.
Hopkins, John Burphy who being duly impaneled
and sworn according to law, after hearing the
evidence, returned the following verdict, viz: We of
the Jury find the evidence that Mrs. Mattie
Current Redmon is a person of unsound mind and a
Lunatic. That the unsoundness of mind has
existed since December 1914; that she
was born in Bourbon County and resides in
Bourbon County, and is 29 years of age;
that she was not brought into this State for
the purpose of becoming a charge upon the
Commonwealth; that she owns no estate of any
kind; that father is dead and mother is
alive and resides in Paris, Kentucky and she
has no estate sufficient to support the
person under trial; and said Mrs. Mattie Current
Redmon is not capable of laboring either in
whole or in part for her support.
A. J.
Thaxton Foreman
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Brief
History of Case by the Presiding Judge: None
Given
Wherefore
it is adjudged by the court that said Mattie
Current Redmon is a person of unsound mind and a
Lunatic. It is ordered the she be
committed to the asylum for the insane at
Lexington, Ky., and that the superintendent of
said asylum be immediately notified and directed to
send for said lunatic.
Robt.
L. Stout, Judge Bourbon County
Attest:
Wm. H. Webb Clerk Bourbon Court
Term
March, Date March 16th, 1915
Bourbon Circuit Court
The
Commonwealth of Kentucky
VS.
Affidavit.
Mrs.
Mattie Redmon
The
affianst, state, that they are regular practicing
physicians in Paris, Kentucky, that they have
personally examined the above named defendant, Mrs.
Mattie Redmon, and they verily believe her to be a
lunatic and a person of unsound mind; and that on
account of such condition of mind, it would be
unsafe to bring Mrs. Mattie Redmon, into court.
J. T.
Brown MD
J. S.
Wallingford MD
Subscribed and sworn to before me, by J. T. Brown
and J. S. Wallingford, this 15th.,
day of March, 1915.
George
Batterton Exc. From Bourbon County
Bourbon Circuit Court
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Vs.
Notice
Mrs.
Mattie Current Redmon
The
Commonwealth of Kentucky,
To The
Sheriff of Bourbon Co., Kentucky, Greetings;
It
appearing from the information filed in this Court
on the 15th ., day of March, 1915, that
Mrs. Mattie Redmon, a person, residing in Bourbon
County, Ky., is a person of unsound mind and a
lunatic; You are hereby commanded to forthwith serve
a copy of this notice, on Mrs. Mattie Redmon, and
notify her that said information has been filed, and
that a jury will be empanelled in said court, on
March 16th., 1915, at 9 o’clock A. M. to
decide whether or not, she is a lunatic, and warn
her that said that unless she appears at the said
time, she will be proceeded against according to
law.
Given
under my hand this 15th., day of March,
1915.
Wm. H.
Webb
Clerk of
the Bourbon Circuit Court
Note on
the back of the notice states, “Mch 15 1915
Exercised the notice by delivering a true copy of
same to Mrs. Mattie Current Redmon
W. T.
Talbott S.B. C.
By: W. G.
McClintock D.S.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky To the Sheriff
or any Constable of Bourbon County:
You are
commanded to summon Dr. Wallingford, John Doty,
Mrs. John Doty, Mrs. Harry Current, Mrs. William
Lancaster, Mrs. Will Bowling, Mrs. Ed Kenton, Mrs.
Martin Snapp, Dr. J. T. Brown to appear before
the Bourbon Circuit Court on the 8th
day of its present term, 16th
day March, 1915, to testify on behalf of
the Comth. Of Ky. In an action in said Court
between Comth. Of Ky. Plaintiff, and Mrs.
Mattie Current Redmon Defendant.
Given
under my hand as Clerk of said Clerk of said Court,
this 15th day of March 1915.
Wm. H.
Webb Clerk.
