Petition

Patrick U. Major 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
BR14-143
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1995
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FTP Identifier
32204880

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Dates
1865-05
1865-06-21
1865-05-18
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Patrick U. Major 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-0001-004-1995 (November 14, 2026).

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Owen Cir Ct

Geo McCarney states that he was fined at the May term 1865 $200 for suffering gameing on the premises he occupied — Another person had been liveing in and occupying the house on the place and the night the gameing occurred had given a party and the persons who played the game went into the tobacco house and played The playing was at dead hour of night and after this petnr had gone to bed The jury thought from the evidence however that petnr did not keep them from playing when he ought to have done so He did not have Counsel in the case but undertook to get along himself & made a bad out of it The Costs & Comths Attys fee will be sufficient punishment upon him

He asks the Governor of Kentucky to remit the Comlths part of the fine

We ask the Govenor to remit the fine

P. U. Major acting com'ths' Atty protem: recommends the fine to be remitted tho he is of opinion there was evidence to convict —

J S Ford Forman of Jury
J B Hartsough Juror
T D Harison do
P. H. Campbell do
George Smoot do
Willis Bush do
James Stonestreet do
Wm W Suter do
Geo H Wallace do

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John Shorter Juror
J. D. Lillard atto
Geo. S. Love [...] Comr
J A Duncan
H P. Montgomery
W. B. Roberts
James H Parter atto.

Owen Cir Ct
vs
Geo. W. McCarney
$200,
Gaming
21st June/65

sent for fee 18th May