Early Governors' Papers

To his Excellency Joseph Mc Min Governor of the State of Tennessee

Your petitioner Brice M. Mayfield of Giles County and State of aforesaid hum bly complaining beg live [sic] to state to your excellency that at last Term of the circuit Court holden for sd County on the 1^st Monday in September last he was jointly indicted with one Isaac Mayfield Larkin Mayfield and one Henry M. Mayfield, for the commission ^of a breach of the peace in assaulting & battering one [Ervin.?] And your petitioner further States that they sd Defendants severally [sic] plead guilty of the charge alleged against them, where upon the sd Court proseded [sic] to pronounce Judgement which was as follows /to wit/ that each Defendant should be fined in the sum of Fifty dollars and remain in prison for the span of one Month except Henry M Mayfield whose punishment was something more mild in its nature - Your petitioner further states that all of sd Defendants were immediately Imprisoned except himself & re= mained [illegible] one night and until Court sat next morning, when the Court [illegible] the ballance [sic] of sd term of Imprisonment - And your petitioner further states that he should have been committed at the [time?] the before mentioned Defendants were and no doubt relea sed at the same time with then; if it had not been for his bad health at the time Judgement pass as aforesaid, In consequence of which last mentioned committance your petitioner was required by sd Court to give security to [be?] & appear at the next term of sd Court, when & there to undergo the aforesaid Judgement im plying we close prision for the term of our month as aforesaid - Your petitioner begs