To Hon Thos E Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned petitioners respectfully represent to Your Excelency. That at the last September Term of the Fulton Circuit Felix G Binford was sentenced to serve four years in the Penitentiary under an indictment for Horse Stealing and that he is now confined in the State Prison at Frankfort_ Petitioners further state that the proof on the trial showed that said Binford was in the Town of Hickman verry Drunk that while in this situation some soldiers passed through the Town and one of them took said Binford up behind him and they left and went to the House when one of the soldiers ordered the Horse "brought out" that the negro did so and the soldiers assisted Binford to Mount him and that he rode the horse away and it was also proved that when they reached the Town of Clinton Binford proposed to sell the Horse but that he was still at that time very drunk. That the next day the horse was found and recovered by Mr Woods. Believing
Fulton C't Ct
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G. Binford.

that all the wrong done by said Binford was done when he was so much under the influence of Liquor as to be incapable of committing crime Wherefore we respectfully urge Your Excellency to Pardon him_