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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 1st 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 guil-
ty 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

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