Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Lafayette County): Criminal Case Files
Inclusive Dates: 1837-1928

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Lafayette County)

Call Number: Lafayette Series 43

Quantity: 4.5 c.f. (14 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records relating to criminal cases tried before the territorial circuit and district court and the Circuit Court. Files include complaints, notes, summonses, transcripts, evidence, rulings, orders, judgments, appeals, and execution orders. Cases relate to criminal offenses such as murder, assault and battery, adultery, larceny, fornication, illegal liquor sales, vandalism, and gambling. Most cases are pre-1900 and some early cases are from the justice court. This series is not a complete record of criminal cases for the time period.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lafa0043