Perry County Criminal Docket Searches
Indiana MyCase is the main public index for a Perry County criminal docket. Search by cause number, citation, party, or attorney. A full number works best, since it names both the court and the case type. Perry Circuit Court uses the prefix 62C01. A misdemeanor number may look like 62C01-YYMM-CM-######. Keep the punctuation and the leading zeros intact.
No match on a name or number? Follow the official search instructions rather than guessing. When the online path fails, the clerk's counter, a phone call, an accepted mail or fax request, and the judiciary's written public-record process are the fallbacks. Ask the court line about settings. The clerk is the record custodian.
- Open MyCase and select case, party, or attorney search.
- Limit the court filter to Perry County when available.
- Enter the full cause number or narrow name terms.
- Save the status, event dates, and exact case number.
- Ask the clerk for an eligible missing or certified copy.
Perry Criminal Codes Decoded
Indiana Administrative Rule 8 assigns the codes that appear inside a Perry County criminal docket number. The code tells you how the filing was classified. It is not a verdict. Read it first to sort misdemeanor, felony-level, murder, and miscellaneous criminal records apart.
- CM
- Criminal misdemeanor.
- CF
- An older criminal felony classification.
- F1 through F6
- Felony filings by level.
- MR
- Murder classification.
- MC
- Miscellaneous criminal filing.
The Indiana field and wildcard instructions show how to narrow public records.
These controls earn their keep when a party has name variants or the filing number is incomplete.
Criminal Dockets: What They Show
A Perry County criminal docket can show the style, filing date, status date, charges, citation number, offense date, statute, degree, and any later charge modifications. Bond data, hearings, judgments, dispositions, and selected orders may appear too. Remember what a charge is: an allegation. A bond row is not a finding of guilt.
| Cause number | Court code, year and month, criminal type, and sequence. |
|---|---|
| Charge | Offense label, statute, degree, date, and modification. |
| Setting | Hearing type, date, time, status, and listed location. |
| Bond | Number, amount, status, and status date. |
| Disposition | The recorded way a charge or case ended. |
The MyCase access table identifies online and in-person document access by case type.
A visible event label does not ensure that its underlying filing can be downloaded.
Perry Criminal Bond Rows
The Perry local rules publish starting bond amounts by offense level. Level 1 or 2 carries $200,000 surety or $20,000 ten-percent cash. Level 3 or 4 drops to $100,000 or $10,000. Level 5 falls to $40,000 or $4,000. Level 6 sits at $15,000 or $1,500. Misdemeanors run cheaper. Class A is $6,000 or $600 for Class A, $3,000 or $300 for Class B. Class C is $2,000 or $200. Murder is listed as no bond.
Schedule versus order: The schedule supplies starting terms. The judge's order and any later change control the actual Perry County criminal docket.
Some cases get no bail at first. Certain domestic-violence or invasion-of-privacy matters can be held pending probable cause or an initial hearing. Check later events and the bond status date before treating an early amount as current.
Criminal Case Stages on the Docket
The chronology shows movement, not just a label. A Perry County criminal docket often starts with a filed charge and an initial setting. Later rows may cover appearances, motions, and pretrial dates. They may also show a plea or trial, judgment, disposition, and sentencing. Some cases end sooner; others pick up new settings or amended charge data.
Docket flow: Filing › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
A status date is not always a hearing. Nor does "disposed" tell you the method of disposition. To confirm a scheduled appearance, call Perry Circuit Court at 812-547-7048 instead of trusting an old saved result.
Perry Criminal Case Counts
For aggregate activity, turn to the Indiana interactive court statistics portal. MyCase serves individual public cases. The 2024 workbook reports all Perry Circuit Court case types together. It shows 13,882 pending at the start. New filings came to 3,571, with 5,603 disposed. Pending stood at 11,840 at year end. Those totals are not all criminal cases. They are not counts of people, convictions, or docket entries either.
The ICOR start page is the official update path.
Its totals cannot prove what occurred in one prosecution.
Perry County Criminal Docket Courts
Perry Circuit Court is the county's court of record. It is numbered 62C01. No active Perry superior court appears on current lists. Older numbers like 62H01 Perry/Cannelton Town Court and 62H02 Perry/Tell City City Court are marked abolished. Troy is not an active Odyssey court. An old citation bearing those numbers may call for an archive or a clerk search.
The Perry County Circuit Court Clerk keeps the official record. The office sits at 2219 Payne Street in Tell City. Call 812-547-3741, or fax 812-547-9782 for a request the office accepts. For setting questions, the Perry Circuit Court answers at 812-547-7048. Federal crimes sit on a separate federal docket.
Missing Perry Criminal Documents
A docket can exist with no document link in sight. MyCase data is not the official record, older papers may never have gone online, and access differs by code. Many criminal case types offer sentencing orders online, while other eligible items still require a trip to the clerk for inspection.
- Confirm the cause number and code.
- Check the MyCase access table.
- Ask about counter, mail, fax, and certified copies.
- Use the judiciary request process for eligible material.
- Review Access Rule 9 for an excluded record request.
IEFS is a filing channel, not a public copy archive. Bulk records requests go through the Office of Judicial Administration instead. MyCase also has limits of its own: a verification step and a cap on how many results one search returns, so plan on narrow searches by name or case number.
Access Rules for Criminal Dockets
Access Rule 5 governs confidential, sealed, excluded, protected, redacted, juvenile, and mental-health records. Absence from MyCase does not prove a Perry County criminal docket is absent. Protection orders live in a separate search, and expungement may remove or limit public criminal data.
Key rules:
Administrative Rule 9 governs public, courthouse, electronic, calendar, and bulk access.
Access Rule 5 defines restricted categories.
Indiana Code 35-38-9 sets the expungement and sealing framework.
The official expungement statute marks a key research boundary.
A missing result is not proof of guilt, innocence, outcome, or nonexistence.
Perry Docket Research Checklist
Gather your details before calling the clerk. Save the cause number, code, and party spelling. Save the filing date, status, status date, and the exact item you need. Note whether a download failed or no link ever appeared. That keeps a Perry County criminal docket request tied to one identifiable record.
- Separate charges from judgments and dispositions.
- Record whether bond information is current or historical.
- Distinguish a hearing from a status date.
- Ask for certification only when it is needed.
- Use the clerk for records and court for settings.
Let the chronological case summary steer your docket search. The file the clerk holds is the one that counts. A name can pull up several Perry County matches. So compare the full court code, filing month, case type, and current status instead of trusting the caption alone. A transferred or renumbered matter may carry a cross-reference to another cause number. Treat that reference as a link between records. It does not prove the cases were merged or that every party and charge matches.
Date anything you save. MyCase financial figures can lag. Older papers may never have been scanned. A later order can rewrite an earlier setting or bond row. Want a certified criminal record? Tell the office which document and cause number you need. Then ask the Perry County Circuit Court Clerk about the copy charge, payment method, and delivery options. Staff can locate and certify eligible court records. But they will not interpret a charge, suggest a defense, or tell you what an entry means for your legal position.