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To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlett: governor of Kentucky,

Your Petitioners would respectfully represent that at the present Term of the Morgan Circuit David Combs, was tried and convicted to the Penitentiary for four years, ^for horse stealing^ they would represent that said Combs is quite a youth not more than 17 years at the time he is charged with taking the Horse, that during the Rebelion he joined the army, and was sworn in as a soldier and shortly after he joined the army his Father was brutally murdered in his own house by a gang of merauders, who leaving a widow with eleven ^twelve^ children some of them very young & helpless the said being the oldest his Mother by persuation and entreaty had her son the who now seeks pardon from the army & he returned to his Home, to work for the support of his widdowed Mother & helpless children.

The proof on the trial to show, that a thieving gang came along, and David Combs was in their compnay. about the time the horse was stolen, and further to show that owner of the horse, after he reclaimed him, by threats of violence, and death induced him to confess that he had taken the horse and upon this confession ^and having been seen near where the horse was hitched out^ the Jury found him guilty of the crime. We firmly believe that this is a case that requires the interpositiion of executive clemency, and that the unfortunate boy should be pardoned.

Milton B Cox Juror John W. Wells Juror