Wednesday, December 17, 2008

DAVID HAMMOND - Pages 124-125 Lyon County KY Lunatic Inquest Book

[There are large X’s through all the information below, and nothing else is filled in.]

Page 124
May Term
State of Kentucky ] SCT Lyon Circuit Court
Lyon County Court May 8th, 1900
COMMONWEALTH
vs
David Hammond ] Lunatic

This day Sam C Molloy, Attorney for the Commonwealth, filed an information as follows, to-wit:

To Hon. Thomas P Cook, Judge of the Lyon Circuit Court:
I am reliably informed that David Hammond is a person of unsound mind, and a idiot and therefore ask that a jury be impaneled to pass upon the subject.

Sam C Molloy County Attorney Lyon County
Ordered by the Court, That _____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: _______________

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