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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-0001-004-3456 BR42-371 to BR42-372

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To his Excellency Thos E Bramlett Govenor of Ky Respected Sir

your petitioners citizens of Ballard and McCracken counties will most Respectfully state to your Excellency that at the September Term 1863 of the Ballard Circuit Court. There was an Indictment found by the grand Jury of said county against James Hudgens Taylor and Edwards for Robery. The trial of the Defendants Hudgens Taylor & Edwards was moved to McCracken County after the court overuled a Motion made for a continuance by the defendants and They rushed into trial. That is, Hudgens & Taylor Edwards case being continued, and convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for Eight years. on entirely circumstancial evidence We have known James Hudgens and his parents for a Number of years and and a More highminded honest & respectable family lives nowhere, This whole thing occured during the highest excitement of the Ware, Taylor and Edwards was Strangers in the country and Either belonged to the Confederate army or guerrellas, The community knew not which, at all events Taylor got away and the confederate soldiers taken Edwards out of Jail before his trial, There is no doubt that if Hudgens was guilty he being young and easily

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imposed upon, was persuaded by Taylor and ^&^ Edwards, to go with them and commit the Robery, We will further state to your Excellency that Wm Hudgens father is dead and have left Jameses Mother and two Widowed daughters and children to depend soley upon there own Exertions for a living James being the only male child living in consideration of all these circumstances as well as the fact of Hudgens having already served over three years of this time, We will most respectfully state that it is a case that deserves Executive clemency if there ever was one, in our opinion, We therefore ask your Excellency to release James Hudges and let him come home to assist his Mother and helpless family. We would ask this if We thought that it would work an injury to public Justice,

Very Respectfully your obedient Servants & fellow citizens

A. J. Watson W. H. McGee P. D. Kimmel J. A. Griffin Jas Stovall A. J. Brackin J. H. Sublett J.. C.. Benedict John S Poindexter M. M. Ghobery S. W. Trice W. J. Frank M. L. chenault Washington Smith J. T. Henderson J. B. Atherton John H Mayes Peter Kaletsh J. A. McGarvy J. A. Brackin

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A Lovelace G W Dowd Wm Crabtree Wily Sams J. R. Henderson G. L.. James P. L. Williams J. W. Rudolph N. A. Boss L. C. Roark Wm K. Roark J.. H Frey B. W. Rucks J H Schooled J B Cress M Corbit John E Ross D. L. Davis James Worrles W. L. Drane John W. Massie B F Atherton M M J.. B.. Ross S B C W J Ashbrook T. F. Scott A. H. Miles S. A. Miles Wade M Glenn J. R. Reeves Jos. Sharp J. W. Benedict G. B. Brackin J Kimmel J A Kimmel George powers Thos Griffin R. W Shelbourne J T Taylor J. S. McSherer C Stringer

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McCracken Cir Ct vs James Hudgens Penitentiary

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