Petition

D. B. Hughes et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG21-32 to MG21-33
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1197
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FTP Identifier
32209605

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Dates
1861-06-24
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Citation

D. B. Hughes et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-1197 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of Ky

The undersigned the Jury who tried Thomas Cheshire under an Indictment against him and others for maliciously Stabing Jno W Hendricks (at the present term of the Washington Circuit Court State to your Excellency that we felt constrained under the Law to find sd Cheser guilty of being present aiding and assisting in the wounding of Hendricks in Sudden heat and passion and fixed his fine at fifty dollars and six months imprisonment in the County Jail We would further state that the case of Chesier is one in which it would be proper for the exercise of Executive Clemency wherefore we respectfully ask that you Remit the imprisonment and the fine so far as you can

D B Hughes
Jas. Edelen
E B. Mills
Thos Colter
The. B Spalding
R Y McElroy
[Stilh] Thompson
Arthur McKenna
Patrick [Sydelane]
Thos, J, Montgomery
John. T. Barker
H P Rabown } Jurors

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Judge, Andrew, J, James
Frankfort Ky

Remitted
B. M

IssdJune 24