Petition from jury and citizens of Blount County to Andrew B. Moore; Undated
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Identifier
Q134455_Q134456
Title
Petition from jury and citizens of Blount County to Andrew B. Moore; Undated
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Type
text
Creator
Unknown
Date
Undated
Description
From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Petition from jury and citizens of Blount County to Andrew B. Moore requesting that the governor commute George Russell's death sentence for the murder of John Henry. The petition is signed by the jury from the trial and by citizens of Blount County.
Format
Petition
Language
English
Place
Blount County (Ala.)
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Margaret Schultz
Relation
Q134447_Q134448-Q134459_Q134462
transcription
To his Excellency [[Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873|A. B. Moore]] Governor of the State of Alabama,
We, the undersigned members of the [[Jury|jury]] who [[Trial|tried]] and [[Convicted|convicted]] [[Russell, George|George Russel]] of [[Murder|murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] a the Fall Term 1858 of the [[Circuit courts|Circuit Court]] of [[Blount County (Ala.)|Blount County]] Alabama, in view of the youth of said [[Murderers|George Russel]] and his want of all moral training in his raising and in view of the manifest excitement from liquor under which the said George Russel la=bored at the time he struck the fatal blow it having been done in a crowded [[Grocery stores|grocery]] when there was some excitement about a bet made, by said Russel with another person on a [wrestle?] and the said Russel possibly misconstruing a request of the [[Henry, John|deceased]] (who was stakeholder) to the said Russel to <u>put up</u> the sum bet, into a <u>taunt</u> by the [[Death|deceased]]—In view of all these circumstance the undersigned respectfully pray your Excellency to [[Commuting--Law and legislation|commute]] the punishment of said George Russel to such [[Prisoners|imprisonment]] in the [[Prisons|Penitentiary]] as may seem right to your Excellency—and your Petitioners will ever pray as in duty bound &c—
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We, the undersigned Citizens of Blount County who heard all or most of the trial of said George Russel concur in the recommendation of the annexed Petition of the Jurors who tried said Russel—
Henry C Barton 1
Wm R Smith 2
Ef drake 3
<s>[?] R. 4</s>
S S Dagnel 4
Randolph Graves 5
G. W. Dagnel 6
John T. Fields 7
James J Fields 8
[Lemuel?] Bentley 9
Nathaniel Smith 10
[Henry?] Madkins 11
Wm [Henry?] Madkins 12
Jasper N Anderson 13
James Graves Jr., Juror 14
James M Mitehol 15
W. M. Hambey 16
D S Murphree 17
William Reese 18
frances M kelsoe 19
Mark Allred 20
Henry M Wood 21
W<sup>m</sup> Lindsey 22
We, the undersigned members of the [[Jury|jury]] who [[Trial|tried]] and [[Convicted|convicted]] [[Russell, George|George Russel]] of [[Murder|murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] a the Fall Term 1858 of the [[Circuit courts|Circuit Court]] of [[Blount County (Ala.)|Blount County]] Alabama, in view of the youth of said [[Murderers|George Russel]] and his want of all moral training in his raising and in view of the manifest excitement from liquor under which the said George Russel la=bored at the time he struck the fatal blow it having been done in a crowded [[Grocery stores|grocery]] when there was some excitement about a bet made, by said Russel with another person on a [wrestle?] and the said Russel possibly misconstruing a request of the [[Henry, John|deceased]] (who was stakeholder) to the said Russel to <u>put up</u> the sum bet, into a <u>taunt</u> by the [[Death|deceased]]—In view of all these circumstance the undersigned respectfully pray your Excellency to [[Commuting--Law and legislation|commute]] the punishment of said George Russel to such [[Prisoners|imprisonment]] in the [[Prisons|Penitentiary]] as may seem right to your Excellency—and your Petitioners will ever pray as in duty bound &c—
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We, the undersigned Citizens of Blount County who heard all or most of the trial of said George Russel concur in the recommendation of the annexed Petition of the Jurors who tried said Russel—
Henry C Barton 1
Wm R Smith 2
Ef drake 3
<s>[?] R. 4</s>
S S Dagnel 4
Randolph Graves 5
G. W. Dagnel 6
John T. Fields 7
James J Fields 8
[Lemuel?] Bentley 9
Nathaniel Smith 10
[Henry?] Madkins 11
Wm [Henry?] Madkins 12
Jasper N Anderson 13
James Graves Jr., Juror 14
James M Mitehol 15
W. M. Hambey 16
D S Murphree 17
William Reese 18
frances M kelsoe 19
Mark Allred 20
Henry M Wood 21
W<sup>m</sup> Lindsey 22
Subject
Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873. Capital punishment--Alabama. Murder--Alabama.
Alabama--History--19th Century.
Alabama--History--19th Century.