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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0794 MG19-249 to MG19-250

Warren County, Kentucky Warren County, Kentucky 1861-03-07 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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 B. Magoffin Governor of Kentucky.

The undersigned were jurors upon the Trial of Rufus Jones at the late term of the Warren Ecquity & Criminal Court and found him guilty of ^the^ Manslaughter of Henry Jenkins & fixed his imprisonment at four years. We did not believe the killing was done with malice, but under sudden heat & passion & hence our verdict -- Yet, altogether we thought under the law we were compelled to find this verdict, the youth of Jury, the connection between the two families, the intimacy & kindness between the Jury & the deceased, and the total absence of anything like a malicious heart induce us to ask that your Excellency will interpose as the Constitution empowers you & relieve him from the punishment which he must otherwise suffer --

Most Respectfully Wm R Covington Wm. M. Breedlove R D Neale L. P. Arnold J. B. Posey J M Thompson

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R. S. Scott T. H. Billingsley W E Miller

State of Kentucky Warren County Sct

J L L Cooke Clerk of the Warren Equity & Criminal Court certify that the nine names affixed to the above instrument of are nine out of the twelve Jurors who served w/in the Jury in the trail of Rufus Jones and I further certify that J M Andrew Thomas Ellis & Benjamin Hester were the other there making the twelve Sworn under my hand this 7th March 1861.

LLCooke