Petition

Micager Bottom 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
BR15-43 to BR15-44
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2227
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FTP Identifier
32205111

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Dates
1865-06
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Micager Bottom 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-0001-004-2227 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency
Thomas. E. Bramlette
Govener of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners Citizens of Adair, Taylor & Marion Counties, would respectfully represent to your Excellency, that Milton. B. Cox was convicted at the June called term of the Adair Circuit Court, 1865, for the robbing of George. W. Walkins a Citizen of Adair County, and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years, in pursuance to the finding of the jury in the case,

Your petitioners state that they do not believe that said Cox, had a fair and impartial trial, on account of the feeling excitement and prejudice against him, they state said Cox proved upon Trial by three reliable, and unimpeached witnesses that said Cox was not within twenty three miles of the house of said Walker watkins, when the robbery was proven to have been committed, it was also

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proven by three creditable unimpeached witnesses, Walker said on the next day after seeing said Cox, that he was not the man that robbed him, Therefore the state believes that the finding of the Jury and judgment of the Court was against the evidence in the case, They therefore pray your Excellency to pardon said Cox & release him from his confinement

MiCager Bottom
G L Eades
J T Bottom
Armsted Shelf
Dr Jonathan ,R, Huff
Samuel W Harden
Milton Weatherford
Lewis M Christie
Harry Dunn
James W Hardwick
Curtis Lard
Isaac R Ford
J W McWhorter Lieut
John S Cozine Capt

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Pardon