Watts_administrative_RSG00256_f13_f14_Q145082_Q145083

The State of Alabama Jefferson County To his Excellency Thomas H. Watts Governor of the State of Alaabama Your petitioner most respectfully presents unto your Excellency that at the spring term 1863 of the circuit court of Jefferson County, the Grand Juors of said court, returned into court a bill of indictment against your petitioner for the offence of hunting wild hogs. Your petitioner farther represents unto your Excellency what he was arrested by the Sheriff of Jefferson County: and gave bond in the sum of one hun dred dollars for his personal apperance at the next [suceeding] term of said court: and was unable to attend to answer said indictment in consequence of sickness and the court not knowing this fact a conditional judgement was rendered against him and his securities in the sum of one hundred dollars, for which their [there] is an execution now in the ^{hands of the sheriff.} Your petitioners forther represents unto your Excellency that at the spring term of the circuit court of Jefferson County, 1864 said judgement was made final and obsolute against him and his securities: and the course of his not attending court to answer said judgement [ni si] was on account of sickness being confined to his bed and living some fifteen miles from the Court House. Could not convey word to the presiding judgement of his condition. His [?] [communication] in the fact of his condition to one of his neighbors with instructions to convey the [?] to his attorney: which was not done as petitioner his informed and believes

Your petitioners farther [?] that he has been tried upon the indictment and found guilty: and a verdict of 20 dollars [rendered] against him that he is a man of family, of limited means and been discharged from the Conferate States service in concequences of physical disability.