Petition from George Russell and James H. Weaver to Andrew B. Moore; Undated
Item
Identifier
Q134451_Q134452
Title
Petition from George Russell and James H. Weaver to Andrew B. Moore; Undated
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Type
text
Creator
Russell, George; Weaver, James
Date
1859 February 1
Description
From the Alabama Department of Archives and History Governor A. B. Moore Collection. Petition from George Russell, defendant, and James H. Weaver, Jailor of Madison County, to Andrew B. Moore requesting that the governor commute Russell's death sentence for the murder of John Henry. The petition is signed by George Russell, James H. Weaver, and contains a note from B. T. Pope, Russell's lawyer.
Format
Petition
Language
English
Place
Blount County (Ala.); Madison 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
Your Petitioner [[Russell, George|George Russel]] humbly represents to your Excellency that he was [[Convicted|convicted]] of [[Murder|Murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] at the last Term (Fall Term 1858) of the [[Circuit courts|Circuit Court]] of the [[Blount County (Ala.)|County of Blount]] and State of Alabama—and although your Petitioner feels that he has been guilty of a great Crime in Killing his best friend under circumstances wholly unjustifiable, for which he deeply mourns, yet your Petitioner feels that he has not been guilty of the offence in the aggravated form of which he is convicted, being so much under the influence of excitement from liquor and other causes as not to be properly conscious of what he was doing at the time he struck the fatal blow. He therefore humbly prays your Excellency to grant him such [[Commuting--Law and legislation|commutation]] of his punishment to that of [[Imprisonment|im=prisonment]] in the State [[Prisons|Penitentiary]] as shall seem right to your Excellency and as in duty bound your Petitioner will ever pray &c. this 1<sup>st</sup> day of February 1859
[[Weaver, James H.|Jas. H. Weaver]] [[Correctional personnel|Jailor]] of} Georg ^his X mark^ Russel
[[Madison County (Ala.)|Madison Co.]] Ala}
[[Judges|Judge]] [[Mudd, W. S. (William Swearingen), 1816-1884|Mudd]] will add his certificate that it should be commuted & it <u>clearly</u> should be—[[Pope, B. T.|Pope]]
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Petition of [[Murderers|George Russel]]
[Ala. Dept. Archives and History CA]
Your Petitioner [[Russell, George|George Russel]] humbly represents to your Excellency that he was [[Convicted|convicted]] of [[Murder|Murder]] in the first degree with the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]] at the last Term (Fall Term 1858) of the [[Circuit courts|Circuit Court]] of the [[Blount County (Ala.)|County of Blount]] and State of Alabama—and although your Petitioner feels that he has been guilty of a great Crime in Killing his best friend under circumstances wholly unjustifiable, for which he deeply mourns, yet your Petitioner feels that he has not been guilty of the offence in the aggravated form of which he is convicted, being so much under the influence of excitement from liquor and other causes as not to be properly conscious of what he was doing at the time he struck the fatal blow. He therefore humbly prays your Excellency to grant him such [[Commuting--Law and legislation|commutation]] of his punishment to that of [[Imprisonment|im=prisonment]] in the State [[Prisons|Penitentiary]] as shall seem right to your Excellency and as in duty bound your Petitioner will ever pray &c. this 1<sup>st</sup> day of February 1859
[[Weaver, James H.|Jas. H. Weaver]] [[Correctional personnel|Jailor]] of} Georg ^his X mark^ Russel
[[Madison County (Ala.)|Madison Co.]] Ala}
[[Judges|Judge]] [[Mudd, W. S. (William Swearingen), 1816-1884|Mudd]] will add his certificate that it should be commuted & it <u>clearly</u> should be—[[Pope, B. T.|Pope]]
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Petition of [[Murderers|George Russel]]
[Ala. Dept. Archives and History CA]
Subject
Moore, Andrew B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873. Capital punishment--Alabama. Murder--Alabama.
Alabama--History--19th Century.
Alabama--History--19th Century.