The level of acceptance of 'Steve the Drunk' was (to me) odd in the extreme.
Still, he got his work done, reeling drunk all the time. Till the mule TBI'd him . . .
Still, he got his work done, reeling drunk all the time. Till the mule TBI'd him . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.