Women’s Suffrage – Rosencrantz vs. Washington Territory, 1884 In 1884, Mollie Rosencrantz was convicted of “running a house of ill fame” in Spokane. She appealed to the Territorial Supreme Court on the grounds that she was convicted by a jury with women on it, and that women did not have the right to sit on juries – and of course, they might be biased in a case such as hers. In light of the law passed in 1883 granting women the right to vote, the Supreme Court ruled that women also had the right to sit on juries – a victory for the women’s suffrage movement.