Petition

L. C. Rankin et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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
Box / Folder
BR10-376 to BR10-377
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0896
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FTP Identifier
32203783

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Dates
1864-05
1864-05-16
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Citation

L. C. Rankin et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0896 (November 15, 2026).

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To his Excellency Governor Thos E. Bramlette your petitioner would respectfully represent that at the present MayMay Term 1864 of the Harrison Circuit Court J. P. Robinson was tried upon an indictment for keeping a tipling house for 3 months and was found guilty of keeping a tipling house and fined sixty dollars: The evidence showed that one J. A. Earles had obtained from the Harrison County Court a licese to keep a tavern & retail liquors at his tavern house in the County of Harrison and after taking out his license took took in J. P. Robinson as a partner under the impression that the business could be carried on under Earle's license all of the retailing by Robinson was done under Earle's license believing said facts present a proper case for the exercise of executive clemency We the jurors who tried the case & members of the bar what heard the trail respectfully ask that the fine be remitted

L C Rankin
Samuel Levesque
Wm Hutcherson

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L D Terry
Wm R McNees
E D McAdams
W R Renaker
Robert Reneker
F J Davis
Adam Renaker
H Cox
Hugh M Leer
Members of the bar
W W Trimble
J. S. Boyd
Jno R Smith
Jno T. McClintock
J L Griffith
J F Ware. C H C. Court
J.H. Marshall
A. H. Ward

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Harrison Cir Ct
vs
J. P. Robinson

Remit Execept fees & costs & enclose care of A. H. Ward Cynthiana Ky —
Tho E Bramelette

Tipling $60
16th May/64