To His Excellency
The Govenor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner W^m Mc Mullen would most respectfully state ^that^ on the 24^th day of August 16861 he was fined the sum of five Dollars & costs for an alleged Breach of the Peace, in the Court of A. D. Haynes Esq^r a Justice of the Peace for the County of Mercer. He admits that he commited a Breach of the Peace but says that it was done under circumstances of extreme provocation, He says that without cause or provocation on his part. he ^was^ accosted insulted groosly on the streets of the Town of Harrodsburg by a man by the name of Bob Gorin, who called Your Petitioner a dam Son of a bitch. dam liar and abused ^him^ so outrageously and so unjustly that he was impeled by a sense of honor to give him a blow, he says that self-respect & the desire of not being regared as a coward required of him to resent the gross insults offered him & he did it without doing Gorin any injury,

Your Petitioner says that in the Police Court of the Town of Harrodsburg on the 4^th day of December 1861

he was fined the sum of five Dollars & costs on a warrant for a Breach of the Peace. Your Petitioner states that the verdict of the Jury in this case was unjust to him as he was assaulted by a certain Michael Outs & that he did no more & attempted no more that to defend himself & keep from being bodily injured. He says that these two fines with costs amount to $25.00. a sum Your Petitioner is wholly unable to pay as he is without means and almost without health. having for some time past been confined to his room & bed & not been scarcely able to maintain himself & is not now recovered. he says that he a mechanic and solely dependant upon his labor for a living. and consequently was he has not been able to settle these judgments even were they Just, besides were he able to work it is very difficult at these times to obtain anything like constant & remunerative employment. He further that these Judgments have been replevied & that a certain John Kane stands as his surety who is also a poor man & now bedfast & not able to satisfy

them without a very great sacrefice. In view therefore of all the Circumstances. Your Petitioner hopes that it will meet the views of Your Excellency of what is Just and right to interpose & afford to the said Kane & your Petitioner all the releif in Your power to grant.

Very Respectfully
W^m Mc. Mullen

State of Ky Mercer County Sct.

This day appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for Mercer County. W^m Mc. Mullen & made oath that the statements of the foregoing Petition were true Given under my hand this 24^th day of March 1861

J M Dillon J P M C

We the undersigned join in the prayer of the foregoing Petition

Mercer J. P.
$5. } breach
W^m M^cMullen

Iss^d. Apr. 24. 1862

Remitted
B. M