June 10, 1841
Monmouth, Illinois
On a technicality, Judge Stephen A. Douglas ruled that that Joseph Smith's writ was illegal and discharged him from the arrest warrant. Joseph returned to Nauvoo the next day.
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 4:370-71
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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