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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1899 | Ad Harmon v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill | West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 722 | 12 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1894 | Essie Long v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Essie Long was charged with assault with attempt to commit murder in the 1st degree for the shooting of Chester Brooks and E.A. Brooks. |
West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 593 | 139 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1874 | Elias Curry v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Commit Rape |
Indictment. |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 248 | 3 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1915 | Joe Exum v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Commit Rape |
Victim: Mrs. Cora Ellison. Exum is also charged with breaking and entering Mrs. Ellison's house. |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1408 | 72 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1895 | Matt Hudson v. State | Madison | Assault with Force and Arms |
Victim: Sam Walker |
West | Range: 83 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 455 | 35 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1926 | Oscar Jaggers v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Assault of J. A. Jones with intent to commit murder in the first degree. |
West | Range: 77 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1908 | 37 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1923 | O. D. Coats v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Cause of action: Felonious Assault. Coats is charged with assaulting B. A. Wilson with a pistol with malice and "aforethought to kill and murder." See WT1733 for related case. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1733 | 24 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1920 | Ross Graves v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Ross Graves is charged with "assault with intent to commit murder upon Jesse Browner." |
West | Range: 78 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1613 | 44 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1922 | Raymond Cole v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Cole was indicted for "assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree upon the body of Henry Hall in May, 1921." |
West | Range: 78 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1691 | 80 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | State v. William Poteete | Madison | Assault | West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 389 | 191 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1895 | State v. General Brooks | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Defendant is accused of assaulting Bob Exum with a shotgun. His appeal was based on the information that the gun was not loaded; however, he had "snatched the gun from a man passing along the street … and believed it was loaded." |
West | Range: 82 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 632 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1898 | State v. Ad Harmon | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Ad Harmon is charged with "felonious assault with the intent to commit murder in the first degree upon the body of D.C. Whitman." |
Middle | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 699 | 56 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1903 | State v. Primus Pegues | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill | West | Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 861 | 15 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1906 | State v. Mack Joiner & Earnest Riley | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
The name of the victim in this case was Howlett Caradine. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1036 | 591 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1880 | State v. John Reid (col.) | Madison | Assault, Felonious |
Incomplete case file. Judgment only. |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1241 | 6 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1914 | State v. R. B. McCommon | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
The victim's name in this case was Ester Derry, who was engaged to the defendant's son but left him when she became pregnant. The shooting took place during an argument when the son refused to marry the woman. |
West | Range: 79 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1348 | 153 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1930 | State v. Hulan Luster | Madison | Assault, Felonious |
victim: Nick Bynum; assault with intent to commit voluntary manslaughter; alleged attack took place in Nov. 1929; Examination only |
West | Range: 77 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 2026 | 189 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1919 | State v. Jack Epperson | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Victim listed as Mahona Epperson. |
West | Range: 79 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1563 | 50 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | State v. Will Saunders | Madison | Assault, Felonious |
victim was Will Rains. Will Saunders was indicted for unlawfully and premeditatedly making an assault on the person of Will Rains with intent to murder- May,1906. |
West | Range: 77 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1935 | 18 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1922 | State v. J. L. Jones, Alias Casey Jones | Madison | Assault, Felonious |
Charged with attacking Mrs. Ella May Wood with a knife. Attacks occurred in the building of the Crook's Sanatorium in August and September, 1922, where Mrs. Wood worked as a nurse. Large case file, housed in 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1721 | 632 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1923 | State v. Will Goff | Madison | Assault |
Charged with Felonious Assault. Victim was J. V. Collins. File includes a Pardon signed by Gov. A. A. Taylor. Assault occurred in April, 1922. |
West | Range: 78 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1721 | 10 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1932 | State v. Bud Sipes & R. C. Melson | Madison | Assault, Felonious |
Dfnts. were accused of the assault to commit murder in the first degree of Joe Matthews. Matthews' family ran a filling station "at the intersection of the Jackson and Bolivar road, what is known as the Steam Mill Ferry Road." After midnight on the night of May 31, 1931 a car of men drove up to a neighboring gas station, and before they left fired a shotgun blast at the Matthews' station, hitting the door jamb in which Joe was standing. In 2 folders. |
West | Range: 77 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 2081 | 239 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1932 | State v. Bud Sipes | Madison | Assault, Felonious |
The Hills: Henry, Lena, Jessie Lee, J. C., Alfred, and John Allen, were sleeping in their home when they were attacked by group of men in the middle of the night. The Hills were African American.The group shot out all of the windows in the home, and fired shots at the family, striking Lena and four-year old John Allen. Hill identified R. C. Melson, Lee Melson, "another gentleman, his cousin, little white boy called Sooner...Will Reid, Tump Givens, and Vincent "Preacher" Comer" in the group. In 4 folders. |
West | Range: 77 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 2080 | 644 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1924 | State v. Jim Raines | Madison | Assault, Felonious |
Victim was W. T. Gibson. Assault occurred with a piece of wood as well as his fists. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1787 | 11 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1873 | State v. Jim Plunkett (col.) | Madison | Assault |
Involving former slaves, Jim Plunkett assaulted Lucy Ann Plunkett. |
West | Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 15 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1873 | State v. Barney Montgomery | Madison | Assault | West | Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 38 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1879 | State v. Jim Logan | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill | West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 247 | 4 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1893 | State v Monroe Cole | Madison | Assault | West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 389 | 68 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1900 | State v. Irvin Hill, alias Irvin Reed | Madison | Assault with Intent to Commit Rape |
Defendant's name is also spelled as Erv Hill, Eve Hill, Erve Reid, and Eve Reid. The victim was a 15-year-old girl named Georgie Ann Bradley, and the rape is said to have occurred in either Wilson or Williamson County, Tennessee. |
West | Range: 79 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1558 | 39 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1902 | State v. Ross Witherspoon, Jr. | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
The victim's name in this case was V.A. Rogers. |
West | Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 855 | 50 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1912 | State v. Will Carroll | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Carroll was charged with assaulting John L. Lewis with a pistol. Carroll did shoot him in the shoulder, breaking his collar bone. |
West | Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 858 | 54 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1916 | State v. Jim Cobb, Jr. | Madison | Assault and Battery |
Victim was Deputy Sheriff Thad Day. |
West | Range: 79 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1417 | 25 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1892 | Tom Oliver v. State | Madison | Assault with Intent to Kill | West | Range: 83 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 364 | 26 | Order A Copy |