To His Excellency
Thomas E. Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner would respectfully represent that on the 25^th day of June 1863 he was tried in the Lexington City Court for an assault and Battery Committed on George Lancaster and upon said Trial was fined in the sum of Forty Dollars, That at the trial of the case no witness was introduced except said Lancaster. who made a prejudiced statement of the facts. That the only witness present at the time of the occurrence was Garrett Totten, who at that time was in the state of Indiana. That he sent a notice to said Totten to attend the trial which notice he did not receive until the time of Trial mentioned in the same and which was really the true time, That feeling confident that the facts of the case were in his favor and knowing the inconvenience to which his witness would be placed to attend he went to trial without him. That he has already paid as Costs and fees in said about the sum of Twenty Dollars leaving unpaid about 10$ or 15,$ as costs, in view of these facts your

Petitioner would respectfully ask a remission of said fine except as to Costs and fees

O. A. Reynolds

Sworn to before me by O A Reynolds March 20" 1865

att Jno B Norton c f c c

I have read the Petition above of O. A. Reynolds and I certify that the facts set out with reference to the sending to me and receipt by me of the notice to attend his trial and time, I was present at the time of the difficulty, and I am decidedly of opinion that Mr Reynolds ought not to have been fined for the occurrence between him and Mr Lancaster

G. ^his X mark^ Totten

Witness Jno B Norton

Sworn to before me by Garrett Totten March 20" 1865

att Jno B Norton clk
Fay. Cir Ct.

I know nothing of the facts of this case but I know O. A. Reynolds and he is a worthy industrious citizen of good character & I would give full credit to his statements

Jn^o B. Huston
J. F. Robinson jr

Lexington City Ct
vs
O. A Reynolds
$40.
Remitted
22^d Mch/65