MILAM COUNTY TEXAS COURT RECORDS - John C. Bobo ****************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Betty Bobo Niemann USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ****************************************************************************** Milam County, Texas John C. Bobo 1865 - 10/28/1892 There was an altercation between Josh Taylor a/k/a Josh Fisher and a man name Mathews over a quarter bet. Mathews got possession of the quarter, by taking it from the person that was holding the bet and would not pay-up. Taylor left, came back with a pistol, shot at Mathews, missed and hit and killed John Bobo. ------------------------------- BOBO, John C. - 10/28/1892 - Milam County Criminal Court Records In the Name and by the Authority of the State of Texas: THE GRAND JURORS, good and lawful men of the State of Texas, County of Milam duly tried on oath by the Judge of the District Court of said County, touching their legal qualifications as grand Jurors, elected, impaneled, sworn and charged as of October Term, 1892 of the District Court of Milam County, Texas, to inquire into and true presentment make of all offenses against the penal laws of said State committed within the body of the County aforesaid, upon their oaths present, in the District Court of said County, That Josh Taylor alias Josh Fisher late of the County of Milam, on the 28th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety two [1892], with force and arms, in the County of Milam and State of Texas, did then and there with malice aforethought kill and murder John Bobo by then and there shooting him with a pistol against the peace and dignity of the state. E S Simms Foreman of the Grand Jury -------------------------------- Texas Convict Ledger Taylor, Josh (a/k/a Josh Fisher) - Convict # 8739 Resident of Rockdale, Milam County, Texas 18 years old 5' 7" tall 155 pounds Black complexion Black eyes Black hair a Laborer Convicted of Murder in the 2nd Degree, Oct 28 1892, of one John Bobo in Milam Co., TX Pleaded Not Guilty, sentenced to 25 years in Huntsville Prison Arrived: Dec 7 1892 Died: June 27 1893 of pneumonia in Rusk Prison Bobo Burial Location: UNKNOWN Taylor Burial Location: UNKNOWN SOURCES: James Woodley jaws59@yahoo.com on 13 March 2004 - Relationship: great-grandson of John Bobo; Milam County District Court Records, Cause No. 5356; Texas Convict Ledgers, Texas State Library & Archives END