Case Summary

In April 1878, Henry Palm was arrested in Olympia, Washington, charged with murder, and jailed to await a grand jury trial. In May 1878, he petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that he should not be jailed for eight months to await the next convening of the grand jury. The judge granted his petition, but the fate of Palm is unknown.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Murder

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

Thurston County Government, Clerk, Territorial Court Civil/Criminal Case Files, 1852-1889, No. 1724 1/2

Source material(s)

Case File

Length of case file

Between 11 and 20 pages

Repository(s)

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

State

• Washington

People

• Palm, Henry (alias Palmer) (petitioner)
• Billings, William (respondent)
• Newlin, W. W. (petitioner attorney)
• Greene, Roger Sherman (R. S.) (judge)
• Elder, A. R. (authority ordering detention)
• Palm, Henry (alias Palmer) (bound party)
• Billings, William (responding party)
• Billings, William (holding party)

• Additional parties

  Mossman, J. V. (complainant)

  O’Brien, R. G. (clerk)

  Dobrin, Mark (stenographer)

  Varner, Daniel (deponent)

  Young, E. F. (deponent)

  Bowlin, James (deponent)

  Gordon, Bug (deponent)

  Naughop, J. W. (deponent)