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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0632 BR9-500

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Cl Hickman Circuit Court Coml vs } To Gov. Bramlette Feby 29th 1864 John Thos Stone &c

At this Feby term of this Court JnoThs Stone was fined on three indictments for retailing, all the acts complained of were at a Barbacue about 4th July, on Saturday, & I have fully investigated the outside facts & find Stone to be an old man & quite poor yet very respectable, but illirate poorly educated he was in attendance at a barbacue & a man there who had liquor to sell hired Stone to attend to it for a short time the old man supposing it to be a fair way to make an honest penny and break no law did it & was indicted he is not engaged regularly in any such business but is an honest, law abiding hard working man & I feel no hestation in recommending his case to executive Clemency

Your honor may rest assured I will never recommend any case for pardon that is not deserving & I will here say it is the only case from this term of this court which I regard as having merit in it -- I further say that executive clemency has heretofore in this district been so easy as to encourage crime & vice rather than break it up

P D Yeiser Coml Atty 1st Judl District

Copy of the indictments, findings, Judgements will accompany this Yeiser