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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1879 | Andy McFarland v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Victim: William Rogers. Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 101 | 6 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1913 | Alexander Householder v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Plaintiff is appealing the charge of voluntary manslaughter. Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 76 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | Bob Reed v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Involuntary Manslaughter." Other case documents in ET 1074. Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | Claud Dykes v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1941 | Grover Reed v. State | Knox | Manslaughter, Voluntary |
Victim: Troy Draper. |
East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 247 | 321 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1938 | Howard Potter v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Involuntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 101 | 12 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | Herman Watkins v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 100 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | Jim Cowan & Jim Parris v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Final Decree only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 87 | 1 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1945 | James Wall v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 100 | 84 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1944 | James Curtis v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Involuntary Manslaughter." Victim: Ernie Horner. 2 folders. |
East | Range: 5 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 219 | 356 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | J. T. Lawrence v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Final Decree only. Date: Unknown. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 92 | 1 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1936 | L. J. Chamberlain v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Victim: Lloyd Guinn |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 100 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | Noble Baker & Frances Baker v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Plaintiffs originally found guilty of manslaughter in the September 1936 death of William A. Henry. A Cary/ Carrie Morgan indicted for the same crime. Henry & the defendants were fighting because Henry had stolen bed spreads & blankets from Nobel Baker. Henry died after falling out of a window. Some question as to whether the fall was accidental, or whether he was thrown or otherwise forced out of the window. May be related to Noble Baker v. State, ET Box 93. Includes hand drawn map. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1073 | 47 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | Noble Baker v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Involuntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | Oscar Fowler v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
Final Decree only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 87 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1949 | Owen Green v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter" Victim: Calvin Henry. |
East | Range: 5 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 167 | 37 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | Ras Haun v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | Raymond Virgil Hensley v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Involuntary Manslaughter." Opinion only in this box. Remainder of case in box ET1064. Victim: Irene Thompson. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 17 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1940 | State v. L. D. Swearengem | Knox | Manslaughter, Voluntary |
Victim: Foster Young. |
East | Range: 5 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 202 | 164 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1939 | State v. Howard Potter | Knox | Manslaughter, Involuntary |
Victim: Dorothy Bayne. Exhibits: 2 - large photos. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 650 | 298 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1945 | State v. Charles Barnes, Jr. | Knox | Manslaughter, Involuntary |
Victim: Willie Robbins. |
East | Range: 7 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 700 | 68 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1946 | State v. John Paul Martin | Knox | Manslaughter, Involuntary |
Victim: Howard Barnett. Exhibits: situation map, death certificate. |
East | Range: 7 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 777 | 198 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | State v. Roy Bailey | Knox | Manslaughter, Involuntary |
Roy Bailey was charged with involuntary manslaughter. He failed to stop at an intersection and collided with another car and the passenger in the other was killed in the collision. Oversize map located in M-17-17 |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1072 | 29 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1937 | State v. Roy Bailey | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Involuntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 10 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1901 | State v. Thomas Woods | Knox | Manslaughter, Involuntary |
Thomas Woods was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the killing of Joseph Johnson. He was sentenced to confinement in jail for eleven months. |
East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 814 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1901 | State v. J. F. Dearmond | Knox | Manslaughter, Voluntary |
Opinion. Victim: Mr. White |
East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 815 | 4 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1936 | Susie Davis v. State | Knox | Manslaughter, Voluntary |
Susie Davis, "a negro woman," shot & killed C. Robert Smith, "a negro man" in front of her home on Willow St., Knoxville. Smith was living in the Davis home, and while there "began going with her widowed daughter, Gertrude Taylor." Though not married, Gertrude & Smith moved to a house in Cruze Alley. Davis often called upon her daughter to help w/housework, which Smith resented. The day of the shooting, Gertrude was at her mother's house & Smith came to forcibly take her home. |
East | Range: 8 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 967 | 151 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1943 | Tom Stafford v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1943 | Van Emory v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 93 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1942 | Von Nicely v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Involuntary Manslaughter." Victim: Robert Henry. |
East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 144 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1935 | Will Spradlin v. State | Knox | Manslaughter |
"Voluntary Manslaughter." Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 100 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1947 | William McBee v. State | Knox | Manslaughter, Voluntary |
William McBee was put on trial for murder but charged with voluntary manslaughter. He shot through a door during an argument and killed Sally Clayton. He claims that when she slammed a door the gun accidentally went off and fired through the door. Sally Clayton did not die instantly and William McBee did take her to the hospital. |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 793 | 247 | Order A Copy |