Harland v. Territory
Washington Territory
Error to the District Court holding terms at Tacoma. Second District. On the seventeenth day of May, 1886, one Jacob C. Livensparger made complaint before a justice of peace for Pierce County, that the plaintiff in error, Jeff.
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Error to the District Court holding terms at Tacoma. Second District. On the seventeenth day of May, 1886, one Jacob C. Livensparger made complaint before a justice of peace for Pierce County, that the plaintiff in error, Jeff. J. Harland, and two others, “ did unlawfully and feloniously carry on, open, and conduct a gambling and swindling game called bunko, or twenty-one, for money, and- did then and there unlawfully and feloniously and fraudulently obtain of the said J. C. Livensparger by such gambling and swindling game called bunko, or twenty-one, the sum of $610, contrary,” etc. Harland…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Turner
A question arises in this case which was before the court at its July term, 1884, namely, the question whether married women living with their husbands are competent grand jurors in this territory. The question was then decided in the affirmative, but by a divided court. (Rosencrantz v. Territory, 2 Wash. 267.) Since that decision there has been a change in the membership of the court, and a majority of the quorum sitting in this case finds itself unable to agree with the views expressed or the conclusions announced in the first decision.
Two members of the court, however, yet adhere to that…
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