Petition from jury and citizens of Blount County to Andrew B. Moore; Undated
Item
Identifier
Q134447_Q134448
Title
Petition from jury and citizens of Blount County to Andrew B. Moore; Undated
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Type
text
Creator
Nimons, John
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
Q134435_Q134436-Q134459_Q134462
transcription
To his Excellency [[Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873|A B Moore]] Govenor of the State of Alabama
We the under signed members of the [[Jury|jury]] who [[Trial|tried]] and [[Convicted|convicted]] [[Russell, George|George Russell]] of [[Murder|murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] at the fall Term 1858 of the [[Circuit courts|Cercuit Court]] of [[Blount County (Ala.)|Blount County]] Alabama in view of the youth of said [[Murderers|Georg Russell]] and his want of all morral training in his raising and in view of the manifest excitement from liquor under which the said George Russel laboured at the time he Struck the fatal blow it having ben done in a Crowded [[Grocery stores|grocery]] where their was some excite—ment about a bet maid by said Russell with another person on a wrestle and the said Russel possably misconstreuing a request of the [[Henry, John|deceased]] (who was Stake holder) to the said Russell to pay up the sum bet into a taunt by the [[Death|deceased]]—in view of all those circumstances the undersigned respectfulley pray your excellency to [[Commuting--Law and legislation|commute]] the punishment of said George Russell to such [[Imprisonment|imprisonment]] in the [[Prisons|Peniten—tiary]] as may seem right to your Excellency—and your Petitioners will ever pray as in duty bound &c John Nimons
R Stephens 34
D. H. Vance 35
Thomis [C?sy] 36
David Frankling 37
W<sup>m</sup>. L Lockwood 38
harper martin 39
John Frankling 40
henry Frankling 41
David Frankling Jr 42
John N gorge 43
Wm anderson
[page break]
<s>The under signed</s>
We the undersigned citizens of Blount County who heard all or most of the trial of said George Russell concur in the recomendations of the annext Petition of the Jury who tried said Russell
M. P. Edmondson 17
Anthoney Fowler 18
R. Rawls 19
[[Anderson, Horatio|<s>How Ratio Anderson 20</s>]]
Thomis Tramel 21
Champs Hensley 22
Russell Campbell 23
Edward Kinney 24
James Campbell 25
J. Y. Mannally 26
Isaac Kelsae 27
James W Leach
Kenchin Barns 28
John Phillips 29 30
J. G. [S?] 31
J. W. Power 32
[P?] M Morris 33
R R Harbison 34
[Ala. Dept. Archives & History CA]
We the under signed members of the [[Jury|jury]] who [[Trial|tried]] and [[Convicted|convicted]] [[Russell, George|George Russell]] of [[Murder|murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] at the fall Term 1858 of the [[Circuit courts|Cercuit Court]] of [[Blount County (Ala.)|Blount County]] Alabama in view of the youth of said [[Murderers|Georg Russell]] and his want of all morral training in his raising and in view of the manifest excitement from liquor under which the said George Russel laboured at the time he Struck the fatal blow it having ben done in a Crowded [[Grocery stores|grocery]] where their was some excite—ment about a bet maid by said Russell with another person on a wrestle and the said Russel possably misconstreuing a request of the [[Henry, John|deceased]] (who was Stake holder) to the said Russell to pay up the sum bet into a taunt by the [[Death|deceased]]—in view of all those circumstances the undersigned respectfulley pray your excellency to [[Commuting--Law and legislation|commute]] the punishment of said George Russell to such [[Imprisonment|imprisonment]] in the [[Prisons|Peniten—tiary]] as may seem right to your Excellency—and your Petitioners will ever pray as in duty bound &c John Nimons
R Stephens 34
D. H. Vance 35
Thomis [C?sy] 36
David Frankling 37
W<sup>m</sup>. L Lockwood 38
harper martin 39
John Frankling 40
henry Frankling 41
David Frankling Jr 42
John N gorge 43
Wm anderson
[page break]
<s>The under signed</s>
We the undersigned citizens of Blount County who heard all or most of the trial of said George Russell concur in the recomendations of the annext Petition of the Jury who tried said Russell
M. P. Edmondson 17
Anthoney Fowler 18
R. Rawls 19
[[Anderson, Horatio|<s>How Ratio Anderson 20</s>]]
Thomis Tramel 21
Champs Hensley 22
Russell Campbell 23
Edward Kinney 24
James Campbell 25
J. Y. Mannally 26
Isaac Kelsae 27
James W Leach
Kenchin Barns 28
John Phillips 29 30
J. G. [S?] 31
J. W. Power 32
[P?] M Morris 33
R R Harbison 34
[Ala. Dept. Archives & History CA]
Subject
Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873. Capital punishment--Alabama. Murder--Alabama.
Alabama--History--19th Century.
Alabama--History--19th Century.