Provenance
Purchased from William Reese Co. (PBA Galleries sale 681, 2019 August 22, lot 52) on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2019.
Summary
Manuscript justice docket ledger in several unidentified hands, recording hundreds of cases heard in Napa County, California, 1883-1885. Chronological list of cases records charges, arrests, pleas, verdicts, sentences, jury members, and witnesses. Charges include disturbing the peace, burglary, battery, theft, maiming animals, obtaining money under false pretenses, and being a public nuisance.
References
Napa County, California Justice Docket Ledger. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Napa County, California Justice Docket Ledger. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.