To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky,

The undersigned petitioners would respectfully state that George Davis at the October term of the Wayne Circuit Court tried and convicted of the crime of horse stealing and sentenced to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for the term of four years,

They state that the evidence by which he was convicted was his own confessions, made as stated by the witnesses who testified against him, on the assurance that if he would confess to the act of taking the horse, he would be released and the prosecutor would discontinue all farther proceedings against him,

They state that no felonious intention was proven on the part of Davis, that the horse which he was charged to have stolen was found in the road, having been turned loose and clearly evidencing the fact that it was taken for temporary use. that after having been rode some six miles it had been abandonded to return to its owner

They state that said Davis is about twenty years of age, that he has been a soldier in the Federal army and served with gallantry as such —

In consideration of the unsatisfactory testimony on which he was convicted, his past service to his country his young years your petitioners ask that he may be pardoned

W^m Simpson
G. W. Hardwick
P W Hardin
G K Marcum
John W Higginbotham
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J D Shearer
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W M^cKee Fox
F M Sumter
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H W Tuttle
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James D Davidson
H R Saufly
H W Sanders
J B S Frisbie
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A Q Spaun
Preston Summers
G Heath
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Samuel Kennedy
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Tho^s W Higgenbotham
G Hardwick
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