To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned, state, that John W Harris was indicted in the Fayette Circuit Court for maliciously stabbing with intent to kill, one James Harkins. That he was at the August term 1865 of said Court tried for said offense, and fined$250 for a misdemeanour. That we we were of the jury who tried him, and although bound in law as expounded by the court to inflict the fine yet we beleived, and now beleive from the evidence, that his case is one that would fully justify the interposition of your Excellency. Mr Harris is, as was shown by some of the most respectable men in Woodford County ^to be^ of good character, of a peaceable, and quiet disposition and industrious in his habits We would therefore respectfully ask that the prayer of his petition asking a remission of his firm so far as your Excellency can remit it, be granted

John Davis
Simon Hopper
E J Smith
J T Hughes
J L Keyes
R R Allen

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