Hopkinsville Ky April 9^th 1861
Gov Magoffin

Sir. at the present term of the Christian Circuit Court. Johnathan Greer was found guilty of Manslaughter and the penalty fined at five years in the Penitentiary of our state a petition has been circulated among the citizens of the county praying your Honor to pardon. I have been requested to write a letter in behalf of M^r Greer and Join in the prayer for his release. which I most cheerfully do. I have known M^r Greer for twenty years and a more orderly upright citizen in My Judgment cannot be found in the county I acted as the prosecutor on the examining trial I heard the trial on motion for bail and a part of the trial at the time of his conviction and honestly I did not nor do I now think that the evidence warrants or Justifies the finding of the Jury. I trust your Honor will give M^r Greer a favorable hearing and in view of his [...] age and the Family he must have imporvided for that your will give him a full pardon and restore him to the potitian he so fully merrits a free man

Respt A D Rodgers
Judge of Christian Cty