Petition

J. A. Moss et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-01-05

Date of Creation
January 5, 1861
Place of Creation
Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG18-258 to MG18-259
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0487
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32208895

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Dates
1860-06
1860-12
1861-01-05
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J. A. Moss et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-05, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0487 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency Bariah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners respectfully represent that at the June term 1860 of the Henderson Circuit Court — Samuel J. Howard and John G. Hicks were indicted for an assault alledged to have been committed on the person of one John Green — which indictment was heard and tried at the December term 1860 of said court — when sd Howard ^and Hicks^ were fined each the sum of thirty dollars — The only witness who appeared to testify in behalf of the Commonwealth was said John Green — who in his testimony stated that he didt know that Hicks struck him, but he looked around and saw a stick lying on the ground near Hicks — and this statement together with the fact of Hickss presence was all that in any way tended to implicate him in the assault — since the trial of the Cause. Hicks has asertained for th first time that he can prove by a credible witness that

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the witness knew previous to the trial of the cause admitted that Hicks never assaulted or struck him — This fact though recently discovered — your petitioners are advised, would not entitle him to a new hearing of the case in as much as it would tend only to impeach the witness green — Your Excellency is earnestly urged and requested to interpose in behalf of Mr Hicks the Executive clemency and remit so much of said fine as the law permits

Henderson 5th Jany 1861

J. A. Moss
W, H Taylor
Wm, H,, Robards
Wm G Taylor
N. M. Hicks
John M Dennis
A. J. Goode
J m Goode
R W Goode
JacobHeld.
Y. E. Tapp
W, S, Hicks

J C Williams
John, R, Wilson
Roger. S. Dixon
W, M, Griffin
Thomas. A Smith
J. T. Norment
L,, L,, Hancock
Radford Dunn
W, H, Overby
James Wilson
J, A, Watkins
S S. Alexander
W. A. Church

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Harvy Yeaman
James B Lyne
W H Delano without any reflections on Green.
Edmd H Hopkins.
T J Hopkins Clk H C C.
J H Stanley
E, F, Eastin
L W. Trafton
W R Kinney
H F Turner
John T Hopkins
L. F. Jones
M, S, Hancock
W. H. Sandifer
L W Brown
Y EAllison
D, W, Griffin C H C
Jesse Robertson
G, W, Collins

Peter Fosse
Jno B. Millet
F. W. Reutlinger
Robt Y Evans
Frank Hofmann.
George Walton
Wm, W, Borst
James Rouse
James Graves
A J Davis
A O Carrithes
Rufus, R, Linthecum

I heard John Green say previous to the trial of the indictment mentioned that Hicks did not strike him of which I gave Hicks no information until after the trial,

Anderson, Bayse,

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John C Stapp
William H Priest
J E Kinney
[...][...]
N. C. Howard
A. G. Howard
H. W. Howard
James, S, Forest
P, H, Sandifer
L. W. Danforth
J. F Mayes
Wm W. Catlin
W, H, Miller
W, P, Fisher
J, W, Rice
Wm Irwin
A, D, Fisher
Jas Carroll
A F Anderson
C R Priest
W. A Gregory
A, L Cheaney
J. V. Gregory
J, Bry Lester,

C A Rudy
Robert Clark
John H [Lovely]
Frank L Ross
Benjamin W. Taylor
David Clark
J, H, Smith
Martin F Galloway
Paine Nunn
G W Johnson
J. R. Biggs
E Randolph
H D Randolph
C Randolph
M L Hicks
Jas B Harison
Salem A Steele
Robt Nesler
P. Hofmann
Jac. Reutlinger
Jacob. Peter
John S Rodman
W. B. Vinson
George Lyne
Jas, L, Hicks

Remitted
B. M.