To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin

We the underassigned citizens would most Respectfuly Represent to your Excellency that John Powell was at the last June term of the Jackson Circuit Court Sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of two years (charged with steeling a hog) the Testimoney only scircumstantially some evidence to the favor of Powell, we will say to you that Powell has left a large family without any means to surport on And we are of the opinion that if you will parden Powell that you will only confirm the opinion of a large Majority of the citizens of said county in his innocense as there was much fulling on the part of the commonwealths witneses manifested on the trial