Cherokee County GaArchives News.....Henry Light Freed April 8, 1887
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The Cherokee Advance (Canton, GA)    8 April 1887 P 3 April 8, 1887
At the fall term of Cherokee Superior Court, in 1883, Henry Light was arraigned 
and plead (sic) guilty to stealing a mule from Thos. Bell a few weeks before, 
while on a visit to this county from Atlanta. Judge Brown sentenced him to eight 
years in the penitentiary. It was at this term of court also that Richard Glover 
who stole Col. Sharp's horse, was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary. 
Light was but a mere boy and for other reasons his sentence was lighter than 
Glover. Hon. W. H. Simmons, of Jasper, his attorney, did all he could for him at 
the time, and at the last term of our court he went before the grand jury and 
stated that as Light had already served about four years, and made a good 
obedient convict and that the Prosecutor, Judge, Solicitor, Ordinary, Sheriff, 
and other citizens had joined in asking that Light be pardoned, he, on the 
suggestion of the Governor, came before the grand jury with the  request that 
they too join in the recommendation. His request was readily assented to, and, 
together with the recommendation and his statement before the Governor, last 
week, he succeeded in obtaining a pardon for Henry Light. 
Henry is now free, and we trust he may ever be. 


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