To his Excellency the Governor of the State of Kentucky

At the present term of the Kenton Circuit Court Ferdinand Hock was fined $50 and imprisoned for six months for the offense of Maliciously Cutting one Lawrence Miller with a barlow knife

The facts as proved are as follows:
Hock was sititng in a bar room in Covington one night last November, when Miller came in, and began at once to quarrel with him, Miller then twice assaulted him, by voiolently seizing him, and by pushing him about, and forcing him twice into a sitting posture. It was proven, that after Hock had been a second time assaulted by Miller and pushed down, he arose drawing from his pocket a common Barlow Knife, with which he struck Miller on the face, and made a cut, not at all dangerous upon the face of Miller, all this was proven, to have accurred Consecutively and without any perceptible lapse of time,

These are all the facts proven in the case, and in view of

Hocks excellent character as a man of peace and good order of industry and intelligence we deem this a Case eminently entitled to executive clemency, and release from at least the penalty of imprisonment as now adjudged against him,

John Wolf
N, W, Ingersoll
David Harris
F. Dresmann
L, W, Herbert
F R Grant
[ R Stacy]
H G, Sergent
John Hambrick
H T Buckner
Sam^l K Hays

Kenton Cir ct

Remitted
B. M

$50. & 6 mo. Imp^t
Fredk. Hock
Cutting
Iss^dJany 19 1861