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Pendleton Circuit Court. April Term 1863 Apl. 21st The Commonwealth of Kentucky plff vs. } Felony Lewis Cummins deft

The jury adjourned herein on yesterday returned the following verdict, "We of the Jury find the defendant guilty of stabbing in sudden heat and passion, and affix his punishment to six months imprisonment in the County Jail & a fine of Fifty dollars. W. G. Woodson, foreman,

A Copy Attest C, A,Waudelohr Clk

Pendleton County State of Kentucky May 5th 1863 To his Excellency J F Robinson Govr of Kentucky

The immediate neighbours and acquaintences of Lewis Cummins, would respectfully represent: That they have known and are well acquainted with said Cummins, and know him to be a peaceable, well disposed, law abiding man, aged about 23 yrs, with a small family, a wife and one infant child, and in very humble and limited circumstances of life, as to means or property. -- just commenced the work, upon and the owner of thirty odd acres of poor comparatively poor land in this County, upon which he has settled in the woods, having only about eight acres cleared, inclosed and under fence; this with his own and unaided labour, and known habits of industry, his whole dependence for a support and living for himself and helpless little family, in this season of busy toil, for all depending upon the soil for a living and the products thereof, as barriers against want & starvation -- as to themselves and those immediately dependent upon them.

The accusation against him is for stabbing in a sudden heat and passion, a certain Tyre Geilaspy, of superior muscular and corporal powers, and your petitioners would be glad to add of equal amiableness of traits of character -- the promient witness in the prosecution, with, fortunately no serious or dangerous wound upon his person, inflicted, if inflicted in heat of passion; and while it is human to err, and especially so, in passion with a first aggression -- your petitioners are convinced, fully and undoubtingly so, there under all the circumstances, the infliction of a fine and imprisonment in this case, loudly calls, in humanity and justice, for the interposition of executive clemency, on behalf of Cummins, we therefore invoke, under an abiding sense that punishment in mercy alone attains its ends, your excellency most earnestly to remit, especially the punishment of imprisonment, as ruinous to Cummins & family and also remission of the fine, as inflicted without reference to means of the accused to pay it a punihsment beyond decent --

Thomas Allender Tillford Sharp Martin W Britton Daniel Punkin Sanfird Sharp William Gray John R Sharp Thos U Chris C. Cookendorfer James Pickerelle John S Cookendorfer Wm Hill James Hill Caleb Hurd B matevensen Samuel Kimble Samuel Wilson Geo Beach Lewis C Grimes M K Tomlin Charles banker Charles Redman Wm,, Hurd C Cookindorfer Q M McCain Eli Sharp J D Cummins Samuel Mclanahan Eli Brown John S Brown Newten Downard Sheffield B Kelly Marshall Downard William Elliott Joseph Brown T D McClanahan John F Black Michal Pendry A J McClanahan Richard Berry Michal Berry Levi Brown William F Young Guss Sharp David Flaugher Israel S Mcgill George Shelton John C Wallace H P Haney B W Cox P B McCall William Mcmath Samuel Lenning Elijah Marshall Caliss Sparks W, T, Recore S W Marshall W H Agrae Wm Pugh T. F. Downard James Alenoer Theadore thomas