Richard H. Stanton to Landaff W. Andrews
1861-03-19
- Date of Creation
- March 19, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- 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
- MG19-307 to MG19-308
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0831
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209239
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Citation
Richard H. Stanton to Landaff W. Andrews, 1861-03-19, 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-0001-020-0831 (November 13, 2026).
Carlisle, Ky,
Hon L. W. Andrews,
My dear Sir,
I promised to remind you of the case of John Kissick, who was convicted at the last term of the Rowan Circuit Court of shooting at Barney Hayden, and fined $21 and imprisoned six months, you heard the testimony, and know that it was a drunken spree, and accompanied with such circumstances as did not indicate malice toward Hayden, He is now in the fourth week of his imprisonment, and I think has been sufficiently punished, and it would be a mercy to relieve him from the balance of the sentence, The fine I suppose has been, or will be paid by his father,
I authorize you to file this letter with
the Govenor as my recomendation of Kissick to his clemency,
Your friend truly,
R. H. Stanton
Senate Chamber
Hon B. Magoffin
Der Sir At the accomping request of Hon R H Stanton attny for Commwth I cheerfully unite in the recommendation that you Excellency pardon Mr Kessick I am very sure ^he^ has been punished fuly Sufficet. as he has now ben in jail one month and it will be at least a week before a Parden can reach him
Your frd
L W Andrews
Rowan Cir. Ct
$21. & 6 mo imprist=
Jno. Kissick'
Isd
Remitted
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