N. F. Drew et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-2210

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

BR15-18 to BR15-19

Place of Creation

Livingston County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

18 August 1865

Dates Mentioned

1865-08-17

1864-10

1863-10-06

1865-08-18

State of Kentucky.
Livingston County
To His Excellency Hon. Tho^s E. Bramblette
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitions will state that they were members of the Petitt Jury who tried Joseph D. Jamison on a charge of permitting games at which property was bet, won & lost to be played in a house under his control &. upon which charge we found him guilty & assessed his fine at Two Hundred Dollars which was done on the 17^th day of August 1865, in the Circuit Court held for Livingston County a Copy of the Indictment is sent with this marked (No. 1)

The testimony against the defendant was substantially this M^cKinney stated that he had seen games played in house attached to & adjoining the Store room of J. S, Hibbs in Birdsville; That where ever any playing was proposed Jameson would tell the parties that they should not bet; that on several occasions parties proposed to take a game in which conversations he remembered these words "boys let's take a game & see who will treat" that at said times they would play & at the end of the game the party who was beaten would sometimes treat. That nothing ws staked & that these were the words used. That he did not remember whether any of these games were played after the first of october 1864 & that he would not be positive about it for his recollection did not serve
him.

Mr Lay stated that Hibbs & Nelson had the house built in which the grocery or barroom was Kept that he sometimes said J. L. Hibbs in there controlling it & selling liquors & at one time he stated he beleives he would close up the room. That Hibbs Kept a tavern at Birdsville.

It was proven by the records that J. L. Hibbs on the 6^th day of octo. 1863 had got out a tavern license to Keep a tavern at Birdsville & that deft. Jameson was sworn in as his Clerk to sell liquors.

Proof was introduced showing that s^d. Hibbs was the owner of the property.

This is substantially the evidence & although it was not entirely clear that he should be fined yet from the instructions of the Court we could not do otherwise, we however think it is a case for Executive Clemency. Mr Jameson is a very young man & very poor & it would be a great hardship on him to pay the above amount. He is also a young man of good standing & moral character as believe & we petition & earnestly request your Excellency to remit the fine believing as we do that if he violated the law it was through ignorance & not with an evil intention.

Given under our hands this 18^th day of August 1865

N. F Drew
R H Cochran

J. C. Ross forman
J. H. Nash
[...] Heatie
W, R Stringer
L,, F,, Sandrs
W, R, Frazier
G W Emerine

A M Barnett Atty. for County

We the undersigned Citizens of Livingston county unite with the above named Jurrors in this pettition and earnestly request your excellency to remit the above fine this August 18^th 1865

R. S. Boyd D. S. L C

G. G. Aydelott one of the Grand Jury who bound this bill
Joseph Newman ^Jr
Joseph Bagley
T L Davis
W,, H,, Yeathey
John Reeves
J. D. Boswell
O" T" Williams
G, E. Davis
William Sparks
B F Davis
W^m A Chipps
D. G. Hurley
John Jones
N A Ray
L R Cheek

J, W, Williams
T. W. Hurley
W, N, Davis
Andrew Cheek
W I Wells
J, J,, [...]
John.S. Leffer
F. A. Moxley
F. M. Fletcher
P. Anderson
J W Mills
J, M, Layman
A J Angel
William J Sparks

Tho^s Croker
W B Wadlington
J C Leech
R M Nelson
W,, W, Parker
J, V, Scyster
Tim M Davis
J S Cochron
G. G. Rappolee
Tho^s O Furnish
W G Springs
H Hudnall
W^m. T Robertson
John M Mitchell
Jesse Wells Ex Cot Judge
E W Powell M D
Z. Aydelott
P Nolan
William Stanly
Thomas Cooper
Henry Gavin Hagery D C of the Liv Co Court
C G Halstead S, L, C.
S. K. Green
James Ramage one of the Grand jury who found the bill --
B. J. ^his X mark^ Ferrill
W. H. Hurley
James Harkins
Louis Montgomery
W^m Hall
R D Powell
J D Perkins
Jas Rexlanger

Wm Soctt Deputy Jailor
T A Leeper
C. S. Lyon
T Moulder
J. H. Dean
W. H. H. Willson
R, R, Hastings
Lewis Hunter
W F Mitchell
A A Grayat
J C, Burns
M B, Grace
P Anderson
J. D. Jameson
W. T. Cowan
S H. Driskill
T A [yancey]
S. P. Artie
James [Zaneny]
J E Simon
W M Gray
Thomas Nelson
J, P, Cooper
B. B. Jameson
W, T, Crosser
J,, P Halsbrook

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