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Hon B Magoffin
At the m Pettus was indicted for Keeping a gambling house, the proof on the trial was that Pettus had a grocery in the Town of Trenton, that he paid but little attention to the grocery himself, but had a clerk to attend to it, and one day some youths steped into the grocery, and one proposed to the other to throw highdie, for Cigars, the die was thrown, the Cigars bought, When the the proposition was made to throw for Cigars, the clerk told them that there was to be no betting in that house, that it was positively forbidden, Just after the die was thrown Pettus steped in and on learning what was going on ordered the young men to leave his house,,
This is the Substance of the proof, the Jury who tried the case found him guilty and assessed his fine at $200,, At the instance of the Jurors a petition was drawn & signed by all of them asking your Excellency to remit release the fine, Some of the Jurors told me that they never would have agreed to the verdict had it not been understood in the Jury room that, they were all to petition
for a release of the fine & that the Same would be released, The Commonwealths attorney wrote a letter, in which he stated the fine ought to be released,,
This petition together with the letter was sent about the 1st of
d 1861.
G. Terry
Todd Cir. Ct
$200 } Gaming
W m Pettus
Remission Issd