Morganfield Ky
Feby 3rd 1863
To his Excellency the Honorable James F Robinson Governor of Ky —

Dear Sir — At the [...] Term of the Union Circuit Court in the year [...] while the Hon Rufus K Williams was presiding Samuel C. Hughes a member of the Union Circuit Court Bar was ordered under arrest and required by the said court to execute bond in the sum of five hundred Dollars

At the time said Hughes was arrested his entire reason was dethroned by intoxication; for a good many years before that he had by that strange infatuation unknown to all except those who have experienced it given himself entirely to the use of the destroying element

A few days after the execution of said bond with his father James R Hughes as his surety while yet laboring under intoxication to an excessive extent he struck Judge Williams in or near the courthouse and his bond was taken as forfeited, process issued upon said bond but no judgement having even been rendered thereon the case is yet pending in the Union Circuit Court as will be shown by a copy of said bond & the proceedings thereon accompanying this paper

Soon after the forfeiture of the said bond, the said Samuel C Hughes married the girl with whom the love affair occurred which produced his intoxication, ever since which time he has been entirely sober, and has entirely abstained from the use of any kind of liquor and is now a worthy and respectable practitioner at the bar getting his full share of business attending to it well and entirely to the satisfaction of his clients, and in all his intercourse with the court and the bar has been as he always was when not influenced by liquor respectfully, courteous and dignified

If any additional evidence of these facts is desired, we respectfully refer you to the Hon. R. K Williams of the court of appeals, R A Spalding member of the Lower House from this county & W W Gardiner Senator from this District. In view of the whole facts of the case we as members of the Union Circuit Court Bar respectfully ask you to release him and his sureties from the payment of the said bond — Mr. Hughes is a valuable member of this community, he is poor and his sureties are hard pressed & nearly overtaken with their own debts

Mr Hughes
Pettn to remit forfeited recogn

$500. } Forfeiture

The forfeited judgt on forfeited recognizance in this case is remitted
J F Robinson

Sam^l C. Hughes
Iss Mar 17^th 1863