To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Governer of the commonwealth of Kentucky

your Petitioner Jacob Parton would respectfully represent unto your Excellency that at the April Term of the Knox Circuit Court ^1865^ He was Indicted for keeping a Tipling House and at the September Term of said Court 1865 Judgment went against him for twenty dollars being guilty of retailing in contemplation of law He States that the on the Evening before Christmas last He had been off & bought some gin for his own use & was on met on the road by several persons who wanted to buy some of him they proposed to buy a pint & He refused to sell saying he had no right to sell and they concluded to buy a half gallon & made him believe he had a perfect right to sell a half gallon so it was not Drunk upon His premises and believing that he had a right to sell He did sell one Half gallon of gin without profit as a matter of accomodation & not for the purpose of Speculation He says he is not a violater of law that he never before was indicted nor fined for any offense