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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| View Entry | 1858 | James A. Howser v. State | Meigs | Assault and Battery |
For assault & battery of William J. Abel. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1179 | 13 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1876 | John L. Hurst v. State | McMinn | Assault and Battery |
For assault and battery of Elijah Cate. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1654 | 22 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1936 | Lonnie Presnell v. State | Marion | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Ben Rollins. Bullet included as Exhibit |
East | Range: 8 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 922 | 64 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1878 | Levi Edge v. State | DeKalb | Assault and Battery |
T. C. Maddox was assaulted |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 38 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1877 | Maynard Hubbs v. State | Union | Assault and Battery |
For beating James Sharp. |
East | Range: 20 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1600 | 11 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1877 | Mayor& Aldermen of Columbia v. Hugh B. Cook | Maury | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Nan Hare. Additional parties: Ambrose Truitt, Armstead Baughn and John Latta. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 40 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1935 | Mollie Shoun v. State | Johnson | Assault and Battery |
Victim Hazel Adams |
East | Range: 8 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 887 | 38 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1904 | Nathan Watkins v. State | Haywood | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Mary Elizabeth Frank also last name stated as Franklin. |
West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1025 | 7 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1915 | N. H. Reasons v. Joe Jackson | Dyer | Assault and Battery |
Jackson attacked Reasons with a knife, knocking him to the ground and slashing him in the face and neck. Jackson claims he was afraid Reasons was going to rob him and words were exchanged between the two in front of witnesses. Sued for $1,000 and got $425 |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1391 | 112 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1918 | Oscar Maddux v. State | Putnam | Assault and Battery |
Oscar Maddux owned and operated a saw mill in Putnam County. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 105 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1881 | Pat Adkins v. State | Knox | Assault and Battery |
Case incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 102 | 1 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1861 | Paul Wright v. State | Roane | Assault and Battery |
For assault & battery of William Dawson. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1193 | 12 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1860 | Richard Hayworth v. State | Grainger | Assault and Battery |
Richard Hayworth, Jr. & Calvin Hayworth & found Rachel Mallecoate & Angelina Hughs, mentally disabled, were washing clothes. Richard poked Hughs with a stick on the hips making lewd references. The women who testified were discounted by other witnesses as lewd & discreditable. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 9 | 18 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1941 | Roxie Jilton, alias Roxie Sheet& Myrtle Scott v. State | Washington | Assault and Battery |
"Hair-pulling contest." Victim: Bonnie Densmore. |
East | Range: 5 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 119 | 68 | Order A Copy |