August 22, 1843
Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith as mayor "fined Stephen Wilkinson for selling spirits without a license." Joseph Smith heard rumors that people in Carthage, Illinois, were raising a mob to drive the Mormons from the state.
Sources:
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters, Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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