John Couch et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-0102

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Petition

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG17-1 to MG17-2

Place of Creation

Graves County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

n.d.

Dates Mentioned

--05

1861-11-01

John Couch et al. to Beriah Magoffin, n.d., Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG17-1 to MG17-2, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0102, (accessed December 29, 2024).

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To his Excelllency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the State of Kentucky.

Your petitioner would most respectfully State, that at the May Term of the Graves Circuit Court, a fine of Forty dollars and the costs of the prosecution was imposed on Wilkerson Carter on an Indictment for a breach of the peace. now many of us were present and heard the evidence deposed ~~dep~~on the trial. There was but a Single witness introduced who swore that no blows passed, & that he saw nothing except a struggle between Said Carter & his adversary, for the possession of a Pistol. -- that Carter had hold of the Muzzle & his opponent the Breech of said pistol. this was all the evidence.

We thought at the time & Still think the fine ($40) was not only onerous but very unjust & wholly unauthorized, Mr Carter is a young man just married, & possessed of very limited means, & the collection of said fine would operate very prejudicially to his future pospects in life, no & would in our opinion crush and utterly prostrate him & his little family.

Believing this would be the almost inevitable result -- of enforcement, we ask your excellency to interpose in his behalf.. and extend to him that executive clemancy, (needed so much by his condition in life & the circumstances surrounding him.) & pray that the fine so far as it is subject to your control be remitted

John. Couch
R, Rowland
C. H. Green
G M Elliott
B. F. Williams

S Riley
Jas. gardner
C. J. Whittemore
David. Orr
A J Fields
T F Purgurson

R T Waller
S A Walker
Hugh Hamlett
W. M Galloway
J, A, Mcnutt
J. R, Riley
G F Conner
M M Conner
J H Wilford
F G Sasseen
Samuel Yandell
M M,, Riley
Thos, J, Jones
S A Hays
James o cochran
W,, F,, Hameten
Capt. W, C, Conley
Given Gamblin
J M Freeman
Wm Breckenridge
A. J. Jenkins
J. M. Wiford
Wm, Calkran
T H. Mayers
H B Rodgers
A J Dill
J R Cochran
W, S, Clark
V Rodgers
H M Snow
Robert T Beasley

M. W. Galloway
J. T. Galloway
[...] B Eatrer
J. C. Cochran
J. M. Emerson
William Melvin
B West Jr
Caleb, Reed
James. M. Coulter
J M Stewart
Cha^s M^cDonald
O H Perry
R,, A,, Lewis
J, F, Parkhill
B. G. Tilley
A J Hamblett
S D Johnson
J A hamilton
Samuel Orr
W, P. Arnett
Edward M. Fleming
James Vaughan
A. H. Davis
Wiley Morris
T M Kinsy
John A Cannon
Isaac D Patterson
A,, Albriton
Branttel Hereneclet
J. N ^his X mark^ Carzine
J. G Pea

Isack Coopland
W^m Bradly
R J, Talbot
T. J. Puryear
L B Holifield
P Reynolds
A J Pryor
A, F, Wright

Graves
Cir. Ct
$40 } breach of the Peace
W, Carter
Resp^t 12. mos
Iss^d Nov 1. 1861

Respite 12 Mo
B. M.

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