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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-2159 MG24-252 to MG24-253

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To the Govenor of the State of Kentucky The undersigned who was appointed by the court to defend and the Commonwealths atty state that Phillip Cormany was tried and convicted to the Penitentiary of Ky for the period of Seven. years for the killing of a man by the name of Hines at the march Term of the Pulaski Circuit Court 1859 that he is now in said Penatentiary The proof and circumstances in the case abundantly Showed that he was a man of very weak mind approaching very nearly to Idiocy that he was greatly under the influence of Liquor at the time and when under the influence of Liquor he was bereft of what mind he had, that before the Killing took place he had been very badly treated by two men. Shellery and Lynn -- one had held him and the other had pissed on him Lynn had drawn a dangerous knife on him twice and made at him to thrust it in him, that Just about the time he shot Hines (which was at the door of ^a^ drinking house, where a good many persons were assembled and drinking Liquor) that Hines Lynn walked to him where he was peaceably standing and Slapped him in the face and ordered him out of the house

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Cormany went out and as he went, Lynn followed him with his knife drawn and Just as Cormany passed out of the door he turned and fired and Hines fell the witness ^thought^ it was Lynn that fell the officer immediately arrested Cormany who asked what for: the officer said for killing that man. Cormany replied I told ^him^ if he drew his knife on him ^me^ again he ^I^ would Kill him; ^It was also proven that the Pistol with which he shot he had taken from another mans Saddebags Just a short time before the shooting^ we think it would be proper to pardon him Jan 17th 1861

Sherrod Williams

I think the foregoing statements tolerably accurate, there was no doubt that Cormony did not intend to kill Hinds. he aimed to shoot Lynn, who was an aggressor upon him at the time E L VanWinkle atto

Phillip Cormany who is now in the Penitintiary of Kentucky for the killing of Hines is a poor Ignorant creature has a wife and three infant children who have no means of support, we the ^undersigned citizens of Pulaski County^ petition the Govenor to pardon him and Let him come home and work to Keep his wife & children from starvation:

Names William E Vaught J C Allman E. E. Barron John Owing M B Perkens Isaac Gastineau David R Layday Henry G. Vaught Names J D Cardan on of the Jury E. S. Salyer J S Vickery John O. Ashley F H Vickery David Hubble C C Dosse

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Names Isaac T. Vaught Josiah Girler Benjamin Girdler A J Gelvin Joseph Huskerson J.. Vickery Robert Randolph. J. E. Casson John A Boke William Vaught A. H. Stivers W P Maise F F Vaught Doss R Russell M D. Harney J. S. Dutten D, W, Barron Wm Nunnely Elisha Dungan Wm Surber Wm culup Levi Stubbel Elisha prue W M Fox J W. Bobbitt W,, W Adams one of Jury John Smith J H Davis E W Sowder -- D Gregory h hopper A S Owens Names JacobCox V. W. Allen J P Nunnelley E Thompson R G Vaught O P Jasper Thomas Baugh Jno W Adams George M. Merrick Hudson Newby Thos White Jesse Purvill Saml D Comtrist Silas Price J P T Burham Sheriff Jos Newchurch E Carn J P Williams Henry Bergeritt John gaston Willis Eastham, Assesor John Hall Jr Daniel McDaniel Bird S Willison T Q Elliot Andrew Ballard Tom Dicks A. J. Irvin Alex, R, McKee Will, C, Curd J, S, Bishop

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A G Howell John M Hanby W G Surber James Pence Thomas Z Morrow Joel Sallee C B. Backeller J M Perkins T. M. Paschal Joseph Bryant Milton G Bryant E Young James Harte Alvey Vanhook E D Porch J P C P John N Allen W G Mills Henry Vaught: E Woolsey W E Beatie S W Hail M V Cundiff W M Newell R Gibson Frank J White I do not know of my own knowledge the above stated facts but it is Generally been reported to me as above stated James Eastham W D Black Wm Haney thomas girdler W M Davis R. S. Barron M Singleton R F Beatie W D Gosett M. M. Higgins John J Griffin Jones Sutton John Crawford Hiram Dugan Chrisley Coppenkoffer D, F, Cundiff C P Eastham coronor John Parrott V.. B.. Watson Q. H. More Wm R Kelly: D S

The petition of the Citizens of Pulaski County for the pardon of Phillip Cormany