Petition

W. W. Hodges et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-09-12

Date of Creation
September 12, 1864
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
BR11-364 to BR11-365
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1213
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32204100

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Dates
1864-04
1864-09-12
1864-09-21
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W. W. Hodges et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-09-12, 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-0001-004-1213 (November 14, 2026).

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To Honorable Thomas, E, Bramlette
Govenor of the state of Kentucky

Your petioners petitioners would respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the Aprile Term of the Boone circuit court, that the Grand jury of said county found an indictment against one F, I, Femeding an Inn keeper in town of Florence in said Boone County upon the statute for selling intoxicating drinks to minors, That testimony on trial shewed the offence to have been committed on one single occasion the witness stating that the defendant Femeding refused to sell him liquor until witness told him that he was sick and much in need of something by way of relief & that then defendant furnished the drink as desired, Your petitioners who were men on the jury which who brought in the verdict on the trial of the indictment ^pray^ that your excellency, in the exercise of a sound & wise discretion ought remit the fine against said defendant and as in duty bound your petitioners shall ever pray
September 12th 1864

W, W, Hodges Foreman
Benjamin Dulaney
Waller Gooding
Jeremiah Smith

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Ben Stephens
William Collins
John Gaines one of Jury
James Rice
Alfred Rucker
Lewis Rice
D M Smith
John Louis

The proof on the trial was, in substance, as stated by the Jury

John L. Scott,
Com. atty.

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Boone Cir Ct
vs
Petition of to Govr
F, J, Femeding
$50
Remit
21st Sept 1864