Com^th.
vs } for selling liquor without License
John Doyle

We of the Jury respectfully request the Gov^r of Kentucky to remit his fine he has proven a good character & worth in all respect respectfully the names of the Jury

M G Lowry
P M Jones Fom
John Dowring Jr
S G. Ray
George Wyatt
J D Seator
Jno E Kennedy
D Forsyth
John Hughes
Albert,, Younks
J M [...]

All the Jury agreed to sign the petition to His Excellency when they returned the verdict into court, the charge was Keeping a Tipling house & one witness was examined, He stated that he dealt with Doyle as a Gorcery Keeper & was in the constant habit of going to the barrel of whiskey & helping himself when he pleased & Doyle never aksed any pay, on two occasions he put

money on the counter as pay & once he saw him ^Doyle^ put the money in the drawer, he was owing at the time a Gorcery bill which since the Indictment he has paid off, y^r petitioner states now he never sold any liquor to witness & he cannot account for his appearing before the Court & making such a statement, he proved on the trial by Judge Johnston and 3 others of great respectability that he was an orderly sober & respectable man & Kept one of the best family Groceries in the city & they never saw any liquor drank in the house I pray y^r Excellency to remit the fine of Sixty doll^s or so much as comes to the Com^th & I will ever pray &c

Respectfully y^r obt servt.
John Doyle

We citizens of Louisville join in the prayer of the petitioner to remit his fine & will be greatly obliged for the same

Mr. John Doyle, is among the last of our citizens whom I would be willing to admit, or could believe guilty of the charge as brought against him — I Pass by his Business House at least Fourt times per day to my dwelling & Back to my Business and a more industrious and orderly man, and a more reliable man can not be found in our city — So will do I know his Law abiding and order loving, habits — that I cannot for a moment believe him guilty. No man has had a better opportunity to testify to his spotless character than I have had during his Business at the corner of 5th & green Sts. and I do really hope your Exelency will remit this unjust fame & Believe me yours

Tho^s M Hicks

I concur, with the statement made by Col Hicks, as above

T. T. Spree

D^r J W Benson a near neighbor and constant customer of M^r Dolyes cheerfully adds his testimony to that offered above

J, W, Benson

April 5^th 1861

I would state to your Excellency that Mr. John Doyle is well known to me, he is an honest & worthy man & I believe that the evidence adduced against him on the trial was from revengeful motives and if your Excellincy will remit his fine, you will be doing only an act, of justice to a deserving man —

very respectfully & truly
your friend
Robert Montgomery