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Owen County Kentucky To his excellency Beriah McGoffin Govenor of the Commonweth of Kentucky,

The Undersigned would respectfully represent in behalf of Jas Sebree convicted of the crime of Manslaughter on the person of William Gerald, at the Sept. term of the Boone Circuit Court; and Sentenced to the term of 5 years laber in the Penetentiary where he now is, that the Said Sebree is and always has been regarted by thos who knew him best as an unoffencive person of Scarcely sound mind and not in any degree dangerous in his disposition to the well being of Society and also that at the time the act was done he was labering under such a degree of excitment from liquer that he was in the opinion of Dr Scott who was examined at lenght on the trial, and also of the officer Mr McNeely who made the arrest a few houres after the, deed was accomplished he was the victim of mental aberration if not of deleriumtremens They would further represent that the said Sebree is Sixty years of age and that his wife who is still older, is devising his imprisenment dependent on charity for a living. and that he Sufferd before hiss trial an imprisenment of Six or eight months which so broke his constitution that he now his dangerously ill in the Penitintiery unable to do any laber and if still Kept in Confinement will in all human probability not Survive many months certinly not to the end of his time Wherfore, in view of all these facts we respectully beg that your Excellency would Graciously