C. C. Webb to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-0040

Document Genre

Petition

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867

Item Location

BR8-59 to BR8-60

Place of Creation

Knox County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

29 September 1863

Dates Mentioned

1863-09-29

1863-10-07

To his Excellency, T. E. Bramlette Govenor of the State of Kentucky

Your petitioner C. C. Webb would respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the last Sept term of the Knox Circuit Court 1863- he was indicted for permittg gaming in his house kept for a tavern in said county, and at the said term of the court, he confessed Judgment for the sum of two hundred dollars when he verily believes if he had tried the case he could have gotten clear of it. but whether he could or not. he implicitly reliers upon your Excellency to relieve him after your hear the statement of the facts. He says that two soldiers, who were at home on furloughs, pasked him if they might play a game of cards in the room. and he told them yes. but they must not play for any thing, and they said they would not, and he went off about his business. and directly he returned & looked at them playing. but the witness to the indictment says that he saw the money under one of their thighs, and would show that your Petitioner was present-

and at the time he confessed Judgment he thought that he could not get out of it. He says these are the facts in the case and he does think it very hard for him to pay that amout. He says that he is a very poor man with a family and ihe is a shoe & boot maker and has laboered very hard all his life to make what little he has, and Consequetly, he does think that if there ever was a case for Executive clemency this is one of them. He says that if your Excellency will remit this fine he and his family will bless him as long as he lives. He says that he is a cripple, and when Kentucky was invaded by Zollicoffer, he was one a mong the twenty four who fought the rebels at the Barbourville bridge- it being the first fight in Kentucky. He says that he does not speak of this in a boasting spirit, althogh if the citizens every where had done as they did there, this portion of Kentucky would never have been laid waste. but he speaks of it alone to show your Excellency that he has been loyal to his
government and although a cripple willing if need be to sacrifice his life for the good of his county. It is the intention that constitutes the crime and for that reason he does not think that he is guilty- If by a change in the affairs of life, I could be in your place, & you in mine, and I knew the circumstances as well as I know it now- I would remit the fine and think that I was doing country good by so doing.

C. C. webb

Knox County

C C Webb says that he believes the statement in the foregoing petition are true

C.C. webb

Sworn to before me by C C Webb this 29^th day of sept 1863-

James F Goshen J P

We ask your Excellency to remit the within fine against C. C. Webb-

Names
J. W. Anderson
James F Goshen J P
O. P. Herndon
J F King D M 8 [Coon] District Ky
D. F. Dorvis
J. W. Davis Representative
Thomas J Pitzer
J R Helton
J H Davis
R. Herndon

Knox Co

Remit all except costs & fees — Oct 7^th 1863

T E Bramlette

enlcose to Barboursville- Knox Co Ky

C. C. Webb
$200.
Gaming

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