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The files located in the Tennessee Supreme Court Cases represent an especially valuable resource for historical and genealogical research at the Tennessee State Library and Archives [TSLA].
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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1940 | Brab Deck & Lenora King alias Mrs. Albert King | Greene | Adultery | East | Range: 5 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 172 | 92 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1928 | Charlie West& Kate Rush v. State | Hawkins | Adultery |
Plaintiff is appealing the charge of "lewdness and adultery." Case is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 84 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | State v. Eliza Osburn | Jackson | Adultery, Open and Notorious |
Eliza Osburn alias is Eliza Jackson. Additional parties: William Keith. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 43 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | State v. Hiram Edde | Bedford | Adultery |
Defendant is being tried for lewd and notorious behavior, including adultery. Defendant is accused of adultery with Louisa Davis. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 247 | 22 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1860 | State v. Stephen C. Bowers& Louisa Anderson | Robertson | Adultery |
Defendants are charged with cohabitating out of wedlock. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 299 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1841 | State v. Elijah Cagle & Elizabeth aka Betsy Bowling [Boling?] | Sevier | Adultery |
Also lewdness. Witnesses testified Betsy raised in the neighborhood in Sevier County, had lived at Elijah's with him & his wife (part of the time in the house with them & part of the time in a cabin on Elijah's land). One witness happened on defs. laying in the woods on one occasion. Another testified Mrs. Cagle had been intimate with Squire Pickins when Cagle was in the army. Witnesses included Elijah's brothers William & John, Benjamin Tipton, Squire Pickins. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1148 | 22 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1869 | State v. John Ross & Mary McGee | Greene | Adultery |
For the period of a year, the defendants lived together as man and wife without being lawfully wed. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1187 | 31 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | State v. Bettie Wiggins | Washington | Adultery, Open and Notorious |
Defendant was accused, along with Abe Richardson, of unlawfully, openly, lewdly, notoriously and publicly cohabitating together as man and wife although they were not legally married. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1639 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1849 | State v. James Peak, et al. | Overton | Adultery, Open and Notorious |
Other defendants: Susanah Greenwood. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 229 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | State v. James M. Slagle | Putnam | Adultery, Open and Notorious |
Slagle & Nancy Slagle was accused of "unlawfully, publicly, openly and notoriously, live and dwell, cohabitate together in lewd acts of fornication and adultery as they were unmarried to and with each other to corruption of their own and the morals of the community where they lived, to the evil example of others and against the State…" |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 18a | 26 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1841 | State v. Peter Finley | Wayne | Adultery, Open and Notorious |
Finley was a "free man of colour" and married. Woman was Ruth Powell, a "spinster" (race not listed). |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 380 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | State v. A. J. Frye and Virginia Miller | Fentress | Adultery |
Plaintiffs were indicted for "unlawfully, openly, publicly, notoriously, recklessly, and scandalously did dwell, live, and cohabit together as man and wife and in lewd acts of fornication and adultery" on July 1, 1888 until day of indictment, third Monday in November, 1888.Defendant alias Virginia Stepp. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1835 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1949 | State v. Clifford Barnes et al. | Hawkins | Adultery, Open and Notorious |
Verdict: Guilty, affirmed on appeal to Supreme Court with recommendation to the Governor. Additional Defendant: Bonnie Davis |
East | Range: 6 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 353 | 22 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | State v. B. R. Livingston& Ellen Perry | Carter | Adultery |
Mrs. B.R. Livingston had went to Perry's home when she caught her and her husband in bed together. Defendants charged with lewdness and adultery. Defendants were found guilty and fined $10 each. |
East | Range: 9 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1291 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | State v. James Little, et al | Carter | Adultery |
Defendants were accused of living together as man and wife although they were not legally married. Defendants were charged with adultery. Additional Defendants: Jane Foust |
East | Range: 20 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1596 | 18 | Order A Copy |