Case Summary

On April 28th, 1894 Meridy Dawsey was convicted of vagrancy, wandering about with no visible business and being a disorderly person. Dawsey was sentenced to ninety days in the county jail. A few days after Dawsey was convicted, they filed a writ of habeas corpus against the sheriff of King county and the judge granted the petition.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Vagrancy

Outcome

Writ allowed

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

King County Government, Judicial Records, Superior Court, Case No. 988

Source material(s)

Case File

Length of case file

Between 6 and 10 pages

Repository(s)

• Washington State Archives, Puget Sound Regional Branch (Bellevue, Washington)

State

• Washington

People

• Mitchell, Frank (petitioner)
• Dawsey, Meridy (bound party)
• Woolery, James H. (respondent)
• Woolery, James H. (responding party)
• Woolery, James H. (holding party)
• Humes, Thomas J. (judge)
• Langley, James Weston (judge)
• Sims, Frank E. (petitioner attorney)
• Bailey, Gideon S. (justice of the peace)

• Additional parties

  Gordon, J. W.(Clerk)