To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Joseph E Tye would respectfully represent that at the last term of the Whitley Circuit Court he was indicted for unlawful gameing entered his appearance & confessed Judgment for $20-. He says that the circumstances under which he was indicted & found guilty are as follows

He went to where some of his acquaintances were playing in a game of cards. They were playing poker and betting Sticks, as he had frequently played the game for amusment & kept the game with buttons corn &c he did not suspect but that it was a game for amusement and when he was asked if he would take some sticks & play he consented & did play in the game He says however that it afterward turned out that they were actually playing for money and counting the sticks as being worth so much money. He says he did not win nor loose any thing in the game nor did he pay any thing for the Sticks handed him when he began the game and that as soon as he learned that the game was for money he quit but he says that one of the party that was engaged in the game who understood what was being played for was called before the Grand Jury. & he was indicted. He says that he is not a Gambler nor ever was that he would not have been in this game if he had have known what they were playing for. He therefore asks that your Excellency will remit. the fines as he is a poor man and unable to pay the same & do justice to himself & he promises no more to be guilty of a like offinse

Joseph E Tye