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Major Genl. Wagner Swayne, Commanding 3rd Military Sub Division of Alabama
Your petitioner R.E. Turner, a citizen of Green County and State of Alabama, would respectfully represent unto you, that he has been convicted by a Jury in the Circuit Court of Greene County and sentenced by the Court to the state penitentiary for the term of five years, on a charge of Grand Larceny. The following is a substantial [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] statement of the facts upon which conviction was had: That he met a freedman in the road about a mile and a half from Havana, with a cart and a horse, and he proposed a trade with him for the horse and gave him two dollars in gold for the horse, but the freedmen denied that he gave him the money and said he took him by force. Your petitioner rode the horse home and got his supper and started to Greensboro in said county, and about a mile and half from his house was arrested by a party of four or five citizens living near Havana. Your petitioner was intoxicated at