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Sparta Ten. 18^th July 1828

His Excellency Sam^l Houston Esq.

Sir- I trust that you will
pardon me for addressing you upon a subject in which I am
no further concerned, than, any other member of the community
I have referenced to the prosecution brought against George
Broyls instituted in the Circuit Court of White County
on a charge for stabbing when Matthew G Moore was
prosecutor, and upon which Broyls was found guilty,
and sentenced amongst other things, to be imprisoned three months

I was not concerned in the defence of this case, but was
present and attended to the testimony in a civil action brought
against him Broyls by Moore, and have no hesitation, in
saying, that from the testimony, it was a case, so nicely ba=
lanced that I conceived it extremely doubtful, which was the
evidence preponderated, and the jurors passing upon the
case were so nearly of the same opinion that they only
gave damages to the amount of forty dollars.- Broyls is
a young man of industry and integrity, and peceable in his de=
portment he has an aged widowed mother, and several sisters
dependent upon him for their support, they have resided in this
County almost from the earliest settlement of the County, and
have universlly sustained a fair character.- Moore the
Prosecutor is a man of an overbearing and boisterous charac=
ter, dissolute in his habits and mannors, of suspicious charac=
ter, and general ill fame, who pursues a dissipated course,
generally [engagd?] iin disputes and quarrels, ambitious to sustain