Countdown to the November 8th Day of Jubilation – Part 9
In 1884, after being convicted of running “a house of ill fame” in Spokane, Ms. Mollie Rosencrantz appealed to the Territorial Supreme Court on the grounds that she was convicted by a jury with women on it. She argued that women did not have the right to sit on juries and might hold a bias in her case. In light of the women’s suffrage law passed the previous year, the Territorial Supreme Court ruled that women also had the right…