Statement issued by Governor Israel Pickens, granting parole to five men who were recently convicted in Shelby County, Alabama.
The men were charged with abetting Samuel Nixon "in committing an assault...in biting off the left ear of one James A. Moore." Citizens of the county had asked the governor to pardon the men: "...it being represented that those persons were accidentally present when the affray happene...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | The men were charged with abetting Samuel Nixon "in committing an assault...in biting off the left ear of one James A. Moore." Citizens of the county had asked the governor to pardon the men: "...it being represented that those persons were accidentally present when the affray happened between the principal parties without any preconcert; and at the time of their encouraging the said Nixon as his friends in the fight, they did not know that he was performing any such desperate and abominable act as that of mutilating his adversary." Pickens did not feel he had enough evidence to make a final decision about the case, but he postponed their punishment. The statement begins at the bottom of the first page. [The men's names are spelled inconsistently in the three documents pertaining to this case; the spellings in this statement are used in the subject headings listed below.] |
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