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To his Excellency B Magoffin Govenor of Kentucky --
The undersigned would most respectfully represent that he was at the present Term of the Kenton circuit was fined fifty dollars & sentenced to confinement in the county Jail for six months -- under an Indictment for cutting one L. Miller with intent to Kill -- The undersigned does not pretent to say he did not cut said Miller -- but he denies that he ^ever^ intended to Injure es said Miller He says they were both in a Lager Beer Saloon drinking -- & when they were both very much under the influence of Beer -- they got into a quorrel & said Miller provoked him with words & violence, to such an extent that he with a small dull pocket Knife cut said Miller on the cheek without any intent to injure said Miller for he Knew not what ^he was^ they were doing -- He says he is a poor man & has no other means of support except from the labor of his hands -- that he is entirely unable to pay said fine -- to pay the Commonwealths
Attorney his fees & the Clerks costs will be very onerous upon him & will be about as much as he could pay -- but even this he can not pay unless he is released from confinement & permited to go to his daily labor which will be the only means of making the money -- He therefore most respectfully ask that he be released from Jail & from the payment of said fine
Ferdinand Hock
F Hock says the statements contained in the foregoing petition are true
Ferdinand Hock
Sworn to before me by F Hock this
R K Sumerwell
Notary Public
Kenton C o Ky
I recommend the remission of the six months imprisonment -- but I think the $50 fine should be enforced
W, E, Arthur
Atty for Com'th