Mayfield. Der 5^th 1860
Gov. MaGoffin —

At the December term of the Graves Circuit Court 1859, J W Perry was tried & fined Nine Hundred Dollars for a breach of his Tavern bond in this for Selling Whiskey to Allen Moody alledged to be drunk at the time. — P. asked for a continuance of the case to prove that he did not sell the whiskey & that he was not present at the time but the court overruled the motion for a continuance & then the case be appealed to the Court of Appeals. the case offered — He was also at the August term of the Graves Equity & Criminal Court tried & fined Two Hundred & Twenty five Dollars for suffering gaming in his house, indictment found at the Same time the other was: evidence in the last showed that persons on one occasion played in his hotel he not being present: these indictments & fines have gone out of difficulty P & others in [...] were engaged in relation to the hotel, — Perry has now gone keeping Tavern he has a large family & it will greatly distress him & his family to pay these fines & the cost & Atto fees of Comth Atto will be as much as he can possibly pay —. this is a case which calls for Executive interposition & I earnestly hope ^you^ will relieve him

Respy yours
Luc Anderson

we unite in the request that the fines impose on Perry be released & hope that your Excellency will find it consistent with Your feelings to interpose

R, K, Williams
A R Boon
J T Lockridge
S. P. Thompson

Graves cir. ct
$300 } breach of tavern bond
J. W. Perry
Resp^d 12. mos
Iss^dDec^r 13 1860