Petition from the citizens of Blount County to Governor A. B. Moore
Item
Identifier
Q134446
Title
Petition from the citizens of Blount County to Governor A. B. Moore
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Type
text
Creator
Adams, John; Horton, James W; Hudson, Nicholas (Jr); Johnson, William; Smith, Sims; Woomack, J T
Date
Undated
Description
From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore collection. Letter written to Governor A. B. Moore from George Russell's jury. The jury members request Moore commute Russell's sentence.
Format
Petition
Language
English
Place
Blount County (Ala.)
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
AnnMarie Shields
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 tried and [[Convicted|convicted]] [[Russell, George|George Russell]] of [[Murder|murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] at [page torn] term of 1858 of the [[Circuit courts|Circuit Court]] of [[Blount County (Ala.)|Blount County]] Alabama in view of the youth of said George Russell and his want of all moral training in his [?] and in view of the manifest excitement from liquor under which the said George Russell labored at the time he struck the fatal blow it having been done in a crowded [[Grocery stores|grocery]] where there was some excitement about a bet made on a wrestle, and the said Russell possably, misconstruing a request of the [[Henry, John|deceased]] (who was stakeholder) to the said Russell to put up the sum bet into a [taunt?] by the deceased. we view of all these circumstances the undersigned respectfully pray your Excellency to [[Commuting—Law and legislation|commute]] the punishment of said George Russell to such imprisonment in the [[Prisons|penitentiary]] as may seem right to your Excellency—and your Petitioners will ever pray as in duty bound etc.
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William Johnson
J T Woomack
John Adams
Nicholas Hudson Jr
Sims Smith
James W Horton
We the undersigned members of the [[Jury|jury]] who tried and [[Convicted|convicted]] [[Russell, George|George Russell]] of [[Murder|murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] at [page torn] term of 1858 of the [[Circuit courts|Circuit Court]] of [[Blount County (Ala.)|Blount County]] Alabama in view of the youth of said George Russell and his want of all moral training in his [?] and in view of the manifest excitement from liquor under which the said George Russell labored at the time he struck the fatal blow it having been done in a crowded [[Grocery stores|grocery]] where there was some excitement about a bet made on a wrestle, and the said Russell possably, misconstruing a request of the [[Henry, John|deceased]] (who was stakeholder) to the said Russell to put up the sum bet into a [taunt?] by the deceased. we view of all these circumstances the undersigned respectfully pray your Excellency to [[Commuting—Law and legislation|commute]] the punishment of said George Russell to such imprisonment in the [[Prisons|penitentiary]] as may seem right to your Excellency—and your Petitioners will ever pray as in duty bound etc.
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William Johnson
J T Woomack
John Adams
Nicholas Hudson Jr
Sims Smith
James W Horton
Subject
Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry); 1807-1873; Alabama--History--19th Century; Petitons; Crime--Alabama--History; Blount County (Ala.); Blount County (Ala.)--History.