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Lexington Ky
His Excellency
Govr Robinson
Frankfort
Ky.
Dear Sir
At the late term of the Fayette Circuit Court there was a fine of $40- imposed on B. Brennan for Keeping a disorderly house in the City of Lexington, On another indictment for the same offence there was a verdict of not guilty, The proof was that the house was Kept by B. s wife (He being a day laborer,) and that she sold groceries in a very limited way when waggoners -- black & white-would be seen as they came into or went out of town But not a witness -- though neighbours, including the City Judge Goodloe, were called or Said that they had ever witnessed any disorder or noise about the house, and that all agreed that the neighbours were not disturbed by it
The indictment was found over a Year ago.
The fine to the parties (& it will fall heaviest on the wife) is a very heavy one, for the proof. No witness ever saw any body drunk in the house, And none, but one, that he had ever seen a drunken man near the house Although it is on Main Street -- and the witness had no reason to believe that that man got any liquor from this house,
The fine not within your Constitutional power to remit, together with the Costs will be just as much as they can bear, and he may have to go to the prison for that,
I hope your Excellency will, deem it not incinsistent with your duty to remit as far as you can the fine, I would not ask you if I did not think you ought,
I Am Very Truly
Your Obt St
Geo B Kinkead