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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1928 | Annie Carter v. State | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Case is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 84 | 1 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | Allison Caldwell v. State | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Final Decree only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 89 | 1 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1932 | A. B. Summers v. State | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Ralph Burton. |
East | Range: 5 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 173 | 109 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | A. P. Massengill v. A. M. Shadden | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Additional Cause of Action: Trespass. Date: Unknown. Opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 74 | 4 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1932 | Annie Williams v. State | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Incomplete case file. Nature and victim of assault are unknown. |
East | Range: 10 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1495 | 13 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1922 | Benton Robertson v. State | Overton | Assault and Battery |
Benton Robertson was charged with assault and battery against Mary Willie Moore |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 429 | 32 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1878 | Bailey P. Harrison v. State | Sumner | Assault and Battery |
Assault of Martha Jones. Joseph C. Stark, Judge of 10th Circuit, W. N. Cowden, Circuit Court Clerk, B. D. Bell, District Attorney General, D. P. Hart, Constable of Sumner Co. Jurors: J. K. Taylor, E. H. Green, J. J. Smith, T. F. Honeycutt, A. W. Overton, H. P. Enloe, George Schleuter, Charles Poston, M. V. Trout, H. E. Love, V. H. Allen, A. Escue. E. T. Bush, Foreman. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 38 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1926 | Bill Brock & Bill Price v. State | McMinn | Assault and Battery |
Order only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 70 | 1 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1919 | Clyde G. Burson v. State | Davidson | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 21 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 142 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1912 | Corporation of Ripley v. Jim West | Lauderdale | Assault and Battery | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1090 | 25 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1919 | Cass Vaughn v. State | Putnam | Assault and Battery |
Additional parties: Ina Kinnard, Bettie Jared |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 113 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1861 | C. W. Hughes v. State | Macon | Assault and Battery |
Defendant is appealing the charge that he assaulted William Drake. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 305 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1884 | Calvin Smith v. Memphis & Arkansas City Packet Company | Shelby | Assault and Battery |
The folder includes three briefs, two hand-written and one printed. Smith worked as a "rouster" on the steamboat Rene Macready, loading cotton. He claims he was attacked by the first mate, beaten on the head and buttocks with a hickory stick, and then threatened with a pistol and shot at. |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 253 | 45 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1946 | Carl Jeffers v. State | Greene | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Mary Jeffers. |
East | Range: 5 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 195 | 184 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Calvin Lee v. State | Weakley | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Cora Hornsby |
West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 576 | 78 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1945 | City of Chattanooga v. Dora Brown | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Victim: William Maddox. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 537 | 11 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1940 | City of Chattanooga v. Richard Cuzzart | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Earl Flegal. Defendant alias: Richard Cuzzort. |
East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 613 | 42 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1874 | Charles Brannon v. State | Monroe | Assault and Battery |
Listed on cover sheet as "mayhem." For assaulting & putting out eye of William Henderson. |
East | Range: 20 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1622 | 30 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1876 | D. H. Jones v. State | Marshall | Assault and Battery |
William Perry |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 43 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1919 | E. C. Lloyd v. State | Shelby | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 21 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 149 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1886 | Eugene Cashon v. State | Shelby | Assault and Battery | West | Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 304 | 12 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1879 | E. P. Monulton v. State | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Monulton was on trial for assault and battery of S. E. Whaler. He was charged with beating, wounding and the ill treatment of Whaler. |
East | Range: 19 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1682 | 33 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1858 | E. J. Riley v. State | Coffee | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 285 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1883 | Fleet Young v. State | Wilson | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 21 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 146 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1936 | Frank Hixson v. State | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Defendant's wife, Maude Hixson, claimed that Frank told her that he had come to kill her &that he beat her with a leather strap. Testimony: H. W. Schoolfield, Dora City, Ida Llewlyn, M/M Murrell Phipps, Mrs. Luther Hixson, Pearl Howell, Evelyn Lowe, James Hardin, Louise Crowe, Arthur Emerley, Fannie Hixson, Tom Powell & Mrs. Potts. |
East | Range: 8 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 949 | 117 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1922 | Glover Davis v. National Life & Accident Insurance Co. | Shelby | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff claims she was the victim of assault and battery by the defendant's agent in her home. She says that, "without provocation or excuse [he] cursed, assaulted, and beat" her. |
West | Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1132 | 10 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1860 | H. Armstrong, et al. v. State | Coffee | Assault and Battery |
Victim was dragged from his bed by a lynch mob and was whipped and flogged. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 311 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1910 | Hills Business College v. Ethel Raney, big next friend John T. Raney | Shelby | Assault and Battery | West | Range: 80 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1185 | 147 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1870 | Henry Crippin v. State | Knox | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff in error is accused of assaulting Louis Foust. |
East | Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1241 | 43 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1879 | Hiram Percell v. State | Washington | Assault and Battery |
Incomplete File. Document state that the plaintiff was in error by counsel. The county treasury was to pay the defendant. |
East | Range: 19 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1684 | 1 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | Horace Graham v. State | Hamblen | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff is appealing the charge that he assaulted Albert Stephens. Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 90 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1889 | Hugh Copeland v. State | Knox | Assault and Battery |
Defendant was accused of assaulting John Carrington. He allegedly "beat, wound[ed], and ill treat[ed]" him. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 103 | 42 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1850 | John Hendrickson v. State | Cannon | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 230 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1853 | Jacob Turner v. Thomas Stratton | Sumner | Assault and Battery |
Jacob Turner claims Thomas Stratton beat and wounded him severely and he seeks damages for his pain and suffering |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 241 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1875 | John B. Bosley et al. v. William Butler | Davidson | Assault and Battery |
Additional defendant - Elias Napier |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 63 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1915 | J. L. Shasteen& W. B. Burns v. State | Franklin | Assault and Battery |
Assignments of Error and Briefs. Incomplete |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 163 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1919 | J. M. Colston v. State | Franklin | Assault and Battery |
Assaulted and battered Charlee Keith, Douglas Woods, Crawford Taylor and Dan Hatchett. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 128 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1891 | John Hudson v. State | Knox | Assault and Battery |
Hudson's name also spelled Hutson in documents. For assault and battery of B. L. Harbison. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 76 | 36 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1942 | James Burkey v. State | Greene | Assault and Battery | East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 246 | 132 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1890 | J. W. Young, in error v. State, in error | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Young was charged with unlawfully fighting in a public place, the county court house in Chattanooga, with Lo Kimble. Young…"ran behind the wire of the Clerk's office…and picked up an ink stand and I grabbed a poker at the fire place and stood there with.. it" from Kinble's testimony. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1810 | 35 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | Jim Clay v. State | Shelby | Assault and Battery |
Victim: William T. Bate |
West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1018 | 78 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1851 | John Nance v. Calloway Hodges | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Nance accused Hodges of assaulting him, having "beat, wounded, and ill treated him," inflicting wounds & bruises on his face & eye & other body parts, which altercation took place at Nance's house after Hodges proposed to "adjust a difficulty about some land," which led to Hodges verbally abusing Nance & then striking him. Nance (who was 60-70 yrs old) attempted to defend himself with fire tongs. Venue changed to Sevier County & then to Cocke County. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1158 | 40 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1876 | J. H. Carpenter v. State | Claiborne | Assault and Battery |
J.H. Carpenter was charged with assault and battery upon the body of one James Dotson. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1654 | 16 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1915 | J. Hugh Macrum v. State | Dickson | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 21 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 130 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1851 | Jonathan McThompson v. State for Elizabeth Hill | Williamson | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 245 | 14 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1921 | Juanita Gales v. State | Shelby | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 393 | 14 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1886 | J. R. Lannom, friend of Bell Dunivant v. R. B. Linkle | Gibson | Assault and Battery | West | Range: 83 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 308 | 50 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1943 | J. E. Watts v. State | Knox | Assault and Battery | East | Range: 5 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 198 | 146 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1893 | John A. Hicks, in error v. State | McMinn | Assault and Battery |
Hicks was a professor at Ulysses S. Grant University in Athens, and was accused of assaulting Miss Bell. Bell tried to leave the room before class was complete, & Hicks caught her by the arm. She hit him in the face with books, & he tried to force her to sit. |
East | Range: 18 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 2037 | 152 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1914 | John Buckner v. State | Lauderdale | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Roy Buckner, the son of John Buckner. |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1408 | 20 | Order A Copy |