To his Excellency Hon Tho^s. E. Bramlette
Govenor of kentucky

Your Petitioner John B. Cassady Stated that at the ^Decr^ Term 1865 of the Metcalfe Circuit Court the Grand Jury of said county found an Indictment against him for Forgery a copy of Said indictment is herewith filed the receipt which is his is charged with having been changed is a receipt given by Geo. A. Clark late sheriff of Metcalfe County Said receipt was origina^lly^ given for $600.00 and after he paid Said Clark said sum of $600.00 and on the Same day, he paid Clark his Taxes and Some other debts against him and Said Clark give him a receipt for all of Said Sums they omitted to take into consideration Some countys claims &c which Clark owed him he thought of Said Claims and called Clarks attention to them and Clark counted them up & remarked that he would just interline the receipt he did take it and interline it and this is the aways the receipt was interlined no one was present but Clark and him Clark returned the Execution who supposes with the proper return endorsed there on the records of the court were burned including said Execution nothing was ever Said to him about Said Execution until after Clark died Geo. R. Price file ^a^ notice to have said judgement reentered and he filed Said receipt & plead it as a payment of Said Judgement which motion to reinstate Said judgement is Still pending and has never been tried Said indictment

was gotten up by his enemies for the purpose of annoying him and injuring his character Clark the only man ^who^ Saw this receipt & who was present is dead if Clark was alive no indictment would ever have been found against ^him^ because Clark and would Explain the whole matter Said prossicution was set on foot by certain parties here maliciously He says that the charge in the indictment that the word Six had been changed from the wrod five is untrue untrue it never was five but was written first Six as it is, Several terms of the court have passed Since Said indictment was found and he has had no trial He very respectfully asks your excellency to grant him a pardon and discharge him from custody he has now for more than a year been held under heavy bond without any cause ^case^ against him & for the sole purpose of annoying him & destroying his character and if possible to break himself

John B Cassady

The undersigned citizens of Metcalfe county Say they concur in the Statement of facts made in the foregoing petition they are well acquainted with John B. Cassady he is a good citizen a hgood neighbor and a man of good character and they are Satisfied that he is not guilty of the crime charged in the indictment and they earnestly ask your excellency to pardon him

Metcalfe Cir Ct
J B Cassidy
A Petition
To the
Excelency of
Tho^s. E. Bramlett
not a case for consideration before trial