Frankfort Ky
His Excellency B McGoffin
D^r Sir

John Bair of Carter County was tried and convicted at the last Nov^r term of the Greenup circuit court upon an indictment for an assault & Battery — He was fined one hundred dollars & Sentenced to confinement in the county Jail for ^six month^ one year We know all about the circumstances as developed by the evidence on the trial and do not hesitate to say that the verdict of the Jury was unauthorized by the law and the testimony in the case — He ought to be discharged from further imprisonment and so much of his fine remitted as is in your power to remit — He is too poor [...] to pay the fine & unless remitted must necessarily pay the same by remaining in Jail —

Yours Respectfully
Henry M Rust