To his Excellency Thos E Bramlett
Govenor of the State of Kentucky

We your petitioners citizens of Carroll County beg leave to represent to your Excellency that at the late August term of the carroll circuit court our neighbor G W Birkshire was fined by the Honorable Judge Drainane the Sum of fifty dollars on an Indictment for Shooting with a pistol at G S Blessing We would further State that Said Birkshire is a man of but little means and cannot without great inconveniance pay said fine and further that the Shooting was done while in a state of great excitement and that at the time the said Blessing gave the lie direct to Birkshire in regard to his statement that he was robed a few nights before by a company of Southern soldiers who entered his house and robed him of 250 dollars

Said Blessing was not hit or wounded by the Shooting but the Judge could not comply with the law without inflicting the above fine of fifty dollars

We your petitioners in view of the whole premises believe this to be a propper case for the exercise of Executive Clemency and respectfully ask your Excellency to remit the fine or somuch thereoff as you may deem propper

Ghent Carroll County Ky Sept 7^th 1863

H C Howard C, C, C
C L Keene
W^m Howard
John Bailey
Peter Wycoff
H J [Wing]
Jos, F, Blythe 32^d Reg K, V, I
Virgil, S, Bledsoe
James R Cockrell
Henry M Griffith

Carroll Cir Ct

Remit except fees & costs

Tho E Bramlette
Gov^r
vs
G. W. Birkshire
Shooting
$50
16^th Nov/63