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Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Service of Writ

 

To the sheriff of Yakima County W.T. Upon receipt

Territory of Washington County of Lincoln } ss

I John Cody Sheriff of Lincoln County W. T. do hereby certify that I executed the within order as I am within commanded and I now have the within named S. P. White confined in the county jail of Spokane County Washington Territory in open court to await the order of the order of said court..

given under my hand this 14th day of April A.D. 1885

John Cody
Sheriff of Lincoln County
W. T.

Fees servin order 1.00
Mileage from Cheney to Yakima 50.00
Guarding prisoner three days 9.00
Prisoner Board three days 3.00
Prisoner fare on cars from Yakima to Cheney 18.00
supplemented return $71.00

the reason of any failing to have the above named S. P. White in court on the 13th was caused   by delayed trains and through no negligence of my own

dated April 14 1885
John Cody Sheriff
By [?] D. S.

Territory of Washington
vs.

Writ of Habeas Corpus
As delivered[?]

Filed April 15, 1885
Kate W. Feuerbach
Clerk
By R. Strobach
Deputy

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Service of Writ.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0126.063

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