To his Excellency Honorable Beriah McGoffin Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioners citizens of the counties of Kenton and Boone, state of Kentucky, respectfully sheweth to your Excellency, that at the recently held June term, of the Kenton Circuit, the Grand jury for said County of Kenton indicted Oscar A Tayler, for the offence of carryingconcealedweapons At the trial of the verdict before the Petitt jury, the evidence conduced to shew, that the Defendant, Taylor, had drawn a small, single barrelled pistol, upon Ephraigm Richards, one of the witnesses, who had had Taylor previously arraigned before a Magistrate, for an attempt to shoot Richards, the Magistrate, putting Taylor under bonds to appear at the Circuit Court, of Kenton County, at its next regular term, The Grand jury failed to indict Taylor for the offence as charged in the original complained, although Richards, the prosecuting witness, testified before that body, but did find an indictment against him as stated above, Testimony adduced on behalf of defendant at the time of Trial of the indictment, tended to shew, that Taylor had been informed by one Grubbs, that he, Grubbs, had reason to believe, that Richards, the prosecuting witness, and one Lymonds, were meditating an attack on the Taylor, the Defendant, whereupon Taylor borrowed of witness, the pistol, for the carrying of which this indictment was found, the pistol being identified by witnesses, as the one loaned by Grubbs to Taylor, and by him drawn upon Richards, and for the carrying of which this indictment was found, and upon the trial of which, the Petitt