Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
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 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 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 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 1935 Joe Rose v. State Hamilton Assault and Battery

Victim: G. W. Simpson

 East Range: 8 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 837 19 Order A Copy
View Entry 1943 State v. Wilton Espy Hamilton Assault and Battery

Verdict: Guilty, affirmed on appeal to Supreme Court.

 East Range: 6 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 359 15 Order A Copy
View Entry 1935 State v. Winfred Holder& Earl Holder Hamilton Assault and Battery

Both Winfred Holder and Earl Holder are charged with criminal assault and battery.

 East Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 832 18 Order A Copy
View Entry 1935 State v. Cass Stephens Hamilton Assault and Battery

The defendant was charged with beating his wife.

 East Range: 8 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 854 11 Order A Copy
View Entry 1931 State v. C. B. Mason Hamilton Assault and Battery

Mason convicted of assault & battery, fined $500, for recklessly driving a car so as to hit Tom Walker with the car, resulting in his death.

 East Range: 10 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1312 13 Order A Copy
View Entry 1941 State v. George Camp Hamilton Assault and Battery

Verdict: Guilty, affirmed on appeal to Supreme Court.

 East Range: 6 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 349 88 Order A Copy
View Entry 1940 State v. Ollie Wilson Hamilton Assault and Battery

Verdict: Guilty, affirmed on appeal to Supreme Court (Bill of Exceptions filed too late).

 East Range: 6 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 357 36 Order A Copy
View Entry 1944 State v. Ralph Cuzzort Hamilton Assault and Battery

Verdict: Guilty, affirmed on appeal to Supreme Court.

 East Range: 6 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 359 17 Order A Copy
View Entry 1938 State v. Preston Lyons Hamilton Assault and Battery

Lyons convicted of assaulting his wife Edith, fined $400, sentenced to 60 days in workhouse. Edith was a reluctant witness for the state, who claimed Lyons knocked Edith down as she was going up the street & picked her up by her hair. He then hit her in the mouth while they were in the patrol wagon. Edith claimed she fell down & denied he hit her in the mouth. They had been married about a year at the time.

 East Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1255 53 Order A Copy
View Entry 1931 W. A. Robinson v. State Hamilton Assault and Battery

Incomplete case file. Plaintiff in error is accused of assaulting A. Fletcher with a pistol.

 East Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1377 12 Order A Copy