Michiel Farrel to Beriah Magoffin
1862-05-12
- Date of Creation
- May 12, 1862
- Place of Creation
- Jefferson County, Kentucky
- 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
- MG23-377 to MG23-378
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1937
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210345
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Citation
Michiel Farrel to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-05-12, 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-0001-020-1937 (November 13, 2026).
To His Excellency
Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky
Your Petitioner Michiel Farrel would respectfully state that he was tried in the Jefferson Circuit Court on an indictment for malicious stabing, & that the Jury recomended your petitioner to your Excellency's Clemency. See copy of the verdict,
Your petitioner states in all honesty that he had no malice when he stabed his adversary, that what he did he conceived to be his duty, & that he did it to save himself from great bodily harm.
Your petitioner has a wife & children & they are dependent sorely upon him for a surport, & he asks your Excellency to grant him a pardon
Michiel ^his X mark^ Farrel
We of the jury find the Defendant quilty as charged in the within indictment and say he shall be confined in the Jail or penetentiary for one year. But recommend him to Executive Clemency
John Gill, foreman
I hereby Certify that the above is a true Copy of the verdict in the Case of the Comwlth vs Michael Farrell.
Attest Jas P Chambers c J c c
Jefferson Cir Ct
Michael Farrell
Malicious Stabbing
1 yr. Penty
IPardon Issd