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To his Excellency The Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Your petitioner Henry A Hite will state that at the last term of the Union Circuit Court he was fined $60 besides costs under an Indictment charging him with keeping a tipling house
He will state that he owned an old Stone house that he once occupied in selling dry goods, and after he failed, the house lay idle for sevral months he eventually rented it to a man by the name of Thos Cowles, who set up a grocery in the same, and said Cowles sold liquor without obtaining a license and for which your petitioner & Cowles were Jointly Indicted, Cowles run off before survice of process on him, & your petitioner was fined, on the sole grounds that on one or two occasions, he drew some whiskey for customers by Colwess request while he was engaged in selling something else to other customers
He will state that he had no interest in the grocery whatever, the goods were purchased by Cowles, for his own use, the Boxes in which they were brought on, was marked to Cowles -- all this was proven on the trial, yet the Jury found him guilty wherefore he prays for a release and in duty bound will ever pray
H A Hite
Henry A Hite says what he has stated in this petition he believes to be true
H A Hite
Union County SS
Subscribed & sworn to me by Henry A Hite this th of March 1861
Hiram McElroy N, P,
Respite 12 mo
B. M