Case Summary

Edward Fuller was arrested for threatening John Seibert in writing and for being an "accessory to Polygamy" and was committed to jail by a justice of the peace when he could not post a $1000 bail. Fuller maintained that these were not crimes and petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted. The outcome of the hearing and fate of the bound party are unknown.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Making written threats
• Accessory to polygamy

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

Thurston County Government, Clerk, Territorial Court Civil/Criminal Case Files, 1852-1889, No. 1620

Source material(s)

Case File

Case document transcriptions

• hc.case.wa.0110.001
• hc.case.wa.0110.002
• hc.case.wa.0110.003
• hc.case.wa.0110.004
• hc.case.wa.0110.005

Length of case file

Between 11 and 20 pages

Repository(s)

• Washington State Archives, Southwest Regional Branch (Olympia, WA) (Olympia, Washington)

State

• Washington

People

• Fuller, Edward B. (bound party)
• Billings, William (respondent)
• Fuller, Edward B. (petitioner)
• Billings, William (responding party)
• Billings, William (holding party)
• Allen, Joseph S. (petitioner attorney)
• Allen, J. B. (petitioner attorney)
• Greene, Roger Sherman (R. S.) (judge)
• James, Galen T. (authority ordering detention)

• Additional parties

  Seibert, John (complainant)

  O’Brien, R. G. (clerk)