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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-0001-004-3447 BR42-359 to BR42-360

Grayson County, Kentucky Grayson County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To His Excellency Tho E Bramlett Govenor of Kentucky

Your petitioners citizens of Grayson County respectfully represent that at the present November Term of the Grayson Circuit Court Jno Sapp was convicted of Grand Larceny and sentenced to serve one year in the Penatentiary, That said Sapp is so nearly an imbecile as in our opinion to be incapable of committing crime- He is incapable of comprehending the moral law & of understanding that it was against conscience to steal- He has had the misfortune to lose one arm in the United States service in the late war and is thus disabled from labor & will thus be rendered of no service to the state- The great object of punishment will be in no degree advanced by his confinement in prison and it can serve no other purpose than to inflict suffering on him for a crime he did not comprehend, We humbly recommend him to your most favorable

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consideration

Stephen Dunn Alex kerr C. C. Bacon Jas W. Moorse James Cravins John George Cravins W B Cook Jones Morris Miles T jennett Wm Galloway Wm Galloway Jr Caleb Miller Wade J Miller M R J Mercer A. E. Ward Alexander S King Marshall Morris Wm Elder Caleb Hayse James H Hayse Samuel Raymer Russel King Daniel Byers H H Brown Thomas Elder Isaac.P. Brown John Huntley Wiley W Lenard huff John Smith D E Johnson J W Bozorth Co atty

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Miles.A. Taylor Levi. Johnson Alen Prewit D S. Carroll T. M. Bond N Anderson James Dewes Thomas Lewis John G Lewis Noah Harrel Gaston Morris Thomas Martier Marin Carter Morris Cray Templeman Tom Ginnet Lanedy prather James hozgens William Miller William Allex James Allex James Johnson

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Grayson Cir Ct vs Jno. Sapp Penitentiary