Edmunds Law & Unlawful Cohabitation (1885)

The Trial of Angus M. Cannon (President of the Salt Lake City Stake) was one of the primary test cases of the recently enacted Edmunds Act. For the first time, Congress had officially declared that the Saints were to be actively punished for polygamy or "unlawful Cohabitation. The initial definition of unlawful cohabitation had been fuzzy and Charles S. Zane, the Chief Justice of the Territory, was given the task of its clarification in the trial of President Cannon. This book relates the court reporting of both the defense and the prosecution of the case as well as the official pronouncements of Chief Justice Zane. Following the government's claims against Cannon are the abbreviated cases of A. Milton Musser and James C. Watson. 118 pages