To his Excellency Governor Bramlette-

Your petitioner Martha Hudgins would respectfully represent to your Excellency that her son James K. Hudgins at the last October term of the M^cCracken Circuit Court was convicted of the crime of Robbery and sentenced to the penetentiary for Eight years and is now in confinement in the penetentiary your petitioner will state that the said James K. is her only son, and has been to her a kind and affectionate son, and she had hopes that he would be the solace and consolation of her old age. She is aged infirm and poor. She has never believed for a moment that her son was guilty of the crime charged against him. She knows that if he is guilty that he was seduced by evil companions yeilding to them only in an hour of strange infatuation. Much as she fondly beleives, he would never suffer under any circumstances to occur again. She beleives that he was raised an honest boy- his father was an honest man. She believes he will yet live to retrieve his character and make for himself the reputation of being an honest man- Taking into consideration his youth- the fact that this is the first the only charge ever made against him. -that his family have allways maintained an honest & respectable condition in Society- her own allmost helpless and forlorn condition

She has been led to hope that your Excellency will interfere- She therefore respectfully asks your excellency to pardon the said James H. Hudgins-

We the undersigned citizens of Ballard & M^cCracken counties concur in the above petition, and ask that the prayer thereof be granted-

M^cCracken Co

Refused
Tho E Bramlette

1864