Cases
Habeas petitions described a broad range of carceral, institutional, and interpersonal confinement over the long nineteenth century, including those used to demand due process, resist enslavement, challenge child removal and reservation confinement, avoid deportation, present child custody claims and protest child marriage, and to challenge institutionalization and detention in private and state institutions. As a legal mechanism borrowed from British common law and guaranteed as a civil right in US federal and state constitutions, habeas provides a lens on a diverse community of legal actors.
Our encoding practice allows us to identify petitions in these three categories and to indicate where those categories overlap. In addition to these three general categories, our team has identified the specific carceral charge being challenged as well as the particular forms of institutional and interpersonal confinements being questioned.
You may also browse or search petitions by location and/or jurisdiction to learn more about the myriad complaints petitioners brought before judges in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington between 1812 and 1924. Each case entry includes a full citation, a summary, links to people with a role in the case, a list of other people named, and any sites of significance. Visitors wanting access to full case files can contact the cited repository for information about obtaining copies. Those without institutional affiliations may request image scans from Dr. Jagodinsky directly. The Glossary defines the attributes used to structure data from the habeas petitions. The Code Book explains the relational structure of the data and functionality of the database website.
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19 results
Download JSON Download CSVHabeas Corpus of O. R. Blystone against Robert Hodge, Sheriff
- Earliest record date: December 5, 1912
- Petition type(s): Carceral: grand larceny | Carceral: forgery
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody
Habeas Corpus of E. N. Roberts against Claude Bannick
- Earliest record date: February 25, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: burglary
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
Habeas Corpus of Irene Thornton against Katherine Murphine
- Earliest record date: March 11, 1913
- Petition type(s): Institutional: insanity
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
Habeas Corpus of John Schmidt against Claude Bannick (C of P)
- Earliest record date: March 29, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: no charge
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
Habeas Corpus of J. R. Moore against Edward Cudihee Sheriff
- Earliest record date: May 29, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: conspiracy to defraud
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
Habeas Corpus of Lawrence Holland by Margaret Holland against Edward Cudihee
- Earliest record date: June 7, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: insanity
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Custody transferred to third party
Habeas Corpus of George Roy Wood against Edward Cudihee Sheriff
- Earliest record date: June 9, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: fugitive from justice
- Petition outcome: Petition denied
- Fate of bound party: Custody transferred to third party
Habeas Corpus of W. S. Matthews against Maria Matthews + House of the Good Shepherd
- Earliest record date: June 10, 1913
- Petition type(s): Interpersonal: child custody | Institutional: child custody
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
Habeas Corpus of C. J. Vollmer et. al. against Claude Bannick
- Earliest record date: July 9, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: removing mortgage property
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
Habeas Corpus of Adolph A. Gust against Edward Cudihee as Sheriff
- Earliest record date: July 30, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: contempt of court
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
Habeas Corpus of W. J. Harvey against Howard Shattuck shf.
- Earliest record date: July 30, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: grand larceny
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
Habeas Corpus of Glenn E. Hoover et al. against Edward Cudihee as Sheriff
- Earliest record date: October 2, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: contempt of court
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
Habeas Corpus of C. L. Rhodes against Claude Bannick (Chief of Police)
- Earliest record date: November 7, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: no charge
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
Habeas Corpus of Sam Newman against Claude Bannick (Chief of Police) Case No: 97668
- Earliest record date: November 7, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: cause unspecified
- Petition outcome: Writ dismissed
- Fate of bound party: Custody transferred to third party
Habeas Corpus of Frank Lagerquist against Peter A. Swanson
- Earliest record date: November 11, 1913
- Petition type(s): Institutional: insanity | Interpersonal: insanity
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
Habeas Corpus of Tony Sullivan et al against Claude Bannick Chf. of Pol.
- Earliest record date: February 18, 1914
- Petition type(s): Carceral: assault
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
Habeas Corpus of Schoenbeck against A. E. Griffiths Chief of Police et al
- Earliest record date: May 18, 1914
- Petition type(s): Carceral: fugitive from justice
- Petition outcome: Writ dismissed
- Fate of bound party: Custody transferred to third party
Habeas Corpus of James Dermott against Austin E. Griffiths (Chief of Police)
- Earliest record date: July 22, 1914
- Petition type(s): Carceral: fugitive from justice
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Not in custody
Habeas Corpus of Joseph H. Abbott against A. E. Griffiths Chief Police
- Earliest record date: September 12, 1914
- Petition type(s): Carceral: fugitive from justice
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
