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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 | 1933 | Annie Mae Thomas v. State | Hamilton | Assault |
Annie Mae Thomas, alias Jones. Plaintiff in error is accused of assaulting Ora Byrd with a knife. Details of assault are unknown. Plaintiff's petition for parole notes that pla. is 18 years old, has never before been charged with a crime, and has worked one job for, "one of our best families" for four years. |
East | Range: 10 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1552 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | John McDonald v. State | Polk | Assault, Felonious |
Plaintiff in error is accused of assaulting Charlie Shelton with a pistol with intent to kill. Shelton was working in a field when the plaintiff allegedly began shooting at him from window in his home. Shelton and the plaintiff were neighbors and had been feuding for some time. Case sought to clarify the ownership of several shade trees. On the morning of the shooting, McDonald's wife Ida was arrested for threatening Shelton with a pistol. |
East | Range: 10 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1520 | 91 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Kenneth Baker v. the State | Knox | Assault, Felonious |
21 year old Kenneth Baxter was accused of entering B.H. Sprankle's real estate office on Union Street in Knoxville, and robbing clerk Lavonne Edmonds of $108.10 at gun point. Baxter claimed to be ill with food borne illness and bed ridden at friend's house. Eye witnesses could not surely identify Baxter. Baker also produced a new witness, was already serving time in jail when the trial took place. |
East | Range: 10 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1476 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Money Ward v. State | Hawkins | Assault with Intent to Kill |
This case file is an appeal of a felony assault conviction. Plaintiff convicted of slitting his wife's throat with a razor. |
East | Range: 10 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1511 | 453 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Oscar Ladd v. State | Marion | Assault |
Oscar Ladd is accused of beating deputy sheriff C. W. Watts with a flashlight. Ladd came to the jail and baited Watts to follow him into the country where he seems to have been ambushed by members of the Ladd family. Guns were pulled, but Ladd beat Watts' arm causing him to drop his weapon. |
East | Range: 10 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1527 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | State v. George Matheny | Dyer | Assault with Intent to Kill |
Dfnt. was accused of an unlawful, premeditated gun attack on Noah Burns, with the intent to kill said Burns. |
West | Range: 77 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 2119 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | State v. L. B. Morley | Johnson | Assault |
Defendant charged with assault for stabbing a man several times. |
East | Range: 10 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1531 | 230 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | State v. L. B. Morley | Sullivan | Assault with Intent to Kill |
L. B. Morley is charged with assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree. He assaulted one J.C. Muse with a knife. |
East | Range: 10 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1537 | 23 | Order A Copy |