Petition

Stephen Dunn et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Grayson County, Kentucky
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
BR42-359 to BR42-360
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3447
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FTP Identifier
32206212

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Dates
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Stephen Dunn 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-0001-004-3447 (November 15, 2026).

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To His Excellency
Tho E Bramlett
Govenor of Kentucky

Your petitioners citizens of Grayson County respectfully represent that at the present November Term of the Grayson Circuit Court Jno Sapp was convicted of Grand Larceny and sentenced to serve one year in the Penatentiary, That said Sapp is so nearly an imbecile as in our opinion to be incapable of committing crime- He is incapable of comprehending the moral law & of understanding that it was against conscience to steal- He has had the misfortune to lose one arm in the United States service in the late war and is thus disabled from labor & will thus be rendered of no service to the state- The great object of punishment will be in no degree advanced by his confinement in prison and it can serve no other purpose than to inflict suffering on him for a crime he did not comprehend, We humbly recommend him to your most favorable

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consideration

Stephen Dunn
Alex kerr
C. C. Bacon
Jas W. [Moorse]
James Cravins
John George Cravins
W B Cook
Jones Morris
Miles T jennett
Wm Galloway
Wm Galloway Jr
Caleb Miller
Wade J Miller
M R J Mercer
A. E. Ward
Alexander S King
Marshall Morris
Wm Elder
Caleb Hayse
James H Hayse
Samuel Raymer
Russel King
Daniel Byers
H H Brown
Thomas Elder
Isaac.P. Brown
John Huntley
Wiley W [...]
Lenard huff
John Smith
D E Johnson

J W Bozorth Co atty

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Miles.A. Taylor
Levi. Johnson
Alen Prewit
D S. Carroll
T. M. Bond
N Anderson
James Dewes
Thomas Lewis
John G Lewis
Noah Harrel
Gaston Morris
Thomas Martier
Marin Carter
[...] Morris
Cray Templeman
Tom Ginnet
Lanedy prather
James hozgens
William Miller
William Allex
James Allex
James Johnson

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Grayson Cir Ct
vs
Jno. Sapp
Penitentiary