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Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Coroner's Jury

Petition Date

December 25, 1884

Earliest Record Date

December 25, 1884

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • Lincoln County, Washington

People

  • White, Sterling P. (Petitioner)
  • Cody, John (Defendant)
  • Turner, George (Judge)
 

Territory of Washington
county of Lincoln} ss

To the Sheriff or any Constrable of said County in the name of the United States you are hereby commanded to summon [?] and lawful men of your county to be and appear before the undersigned one of the Justice of the Peace acting coroner in and for said county on the 25th day of December 1884 at 11 o'clock a.m. at the place of A. S. Beardon to make a jury for a common trial, and have you then and there this writ.

Given under my hand this 25th day of December 1884

J.W. Carpenter
Justice of the Peace
Acting Coroner

H.F. Warren 6
C. T. Blackfan 10
J. S. Black 4
N. Robinson 6
C. T. Brindell 10
S. L. Short 2 miles

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Coroner's Jury.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0126.044

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