Franklin D. Roosevelt Document Signed

DS as president, one page both sides, 9 x 13.5, January 27, 1934. An act of executive clemency, in which President Roosevelt approves to commute the sentence of Joseph Winkelstein who was convicted "of possession of intoxicating liquor of an illegal alcoholic content…and was sentenced October twenty-eighth, 1931." Signed at the conclusion by Roosevelt, and countersigned by Homer S. Cummings as attorney general. Red Department of Justice seal remains affixed to lower left. In fine condition, with some light toning and creasing. The ratification of the Twenty-first amendment on December 5, 1933, repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol for a period of thirteen years.