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In re Frankie Switzinger for writ of Habeas Corpus. Complaint

 

Territory of Washington County of Spokane City of Spokane Falls

R.J. Rusk, being duly sworn on such complaint that at the city of Spokane Falls Spokane County Territory of Washington on the 21 day of November 1885, Frankie Sutsinger did wilfully unlawfully & maliciously keep a house within the limits of the city of Spokane Falls, in which other persons smoke or inhale opium contrary to the provisions and in violation of an ordination of said city, entitled "an ordinance prohibiting the smoking or inhaling of opium"-passed by the city council Sept 9th 1885, against the[?] peace & dignity of the city of Spokane Falls and of the Territory of Washington

Subscribed & sworn to before me Nov. 13, 1885} R.J. Rusk
J. J. L. Peel
Justice of the Peace

 

City of Spokane Falls vs Frankie Sutsinger

Complaint

Filed November 23rd, 1885 J. J. L. Peel J. P.

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “In re Frankie Switzinger for writ of Habeas Corpus. Complaint.” 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.0144.001

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