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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 | Andrew Scearce v. State | Weakley | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff was convicted of aggravated assault and battery against the prosecutor, cutting him with a knife. Scearce charged that the prosecutor had sung a vulgar song, "Rye Straw," in the presence of Scearce's wife. The prosecutor and a witness swore that the song was "Bill Jones." Brief for the State only. |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 727 | 2 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1944 | Ben Harrison v. State | Washington | Assault with Force and Arms |
Victim: Bobbie Snyder. |
East | Range: 5 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 121 | 89 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1940 | Clyde Rainbolt v. State | Johnson | Assault with Force and Arms |
Knifing Victim: W. H. Stout. Name also spelled Raimbolt and Railbolt. |
East | Range: 5 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 143 | 16 | 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 | 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 | 1871 | David Garst v. Elbert S. Cox | Washington | Assault and Battery |
Additional Cause of Action: Trespass with Force and Arms. Contains judge's opinion. The defendant is accused of beating Garst with a cane. Cox believed Garst was partially responsible for the burning of his house by Union soldiers. Additional part of case in ET 815. |
East | Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1249 | 292 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 1941 | Gilbert Austin v. State | Washington | Assault with Force and Arms |
Stabbing. Victim: Alice Trent. |
East | Range: 5 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 117 | 31 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1917 | George Dunwood v. John Lenti | Shelby | Assault with Force and Arms |
Dunwood alleged that Lenti fired a pistol at him while walking down North Pauline Street and Hubbard Place in Memphis. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1122 | 55 | 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 | 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 | 1947 | H. F. Weems v. State | Greene | Assault with Force and Arms |
Shooting Victims: Clyde Wells, G. E. Pruitt, and Jay Rader. |
East | Range: 5 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 185 | 36 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1872 | Henry Kelly & Wife v. Jacob S. Fritts | Assault and Battery |
Opinion only. Kelly sued Fritts for assault and battery and for throwing him and his wife and their property out of their house. Fritts pleaded not guilty. Fritts was deputy sheriff and had writ of possession from pending suit D. White v. Barbary Pettit. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1210 | 5 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1877 | H. D. C. Mynatt v. State | Knox | Assault with Force and Arms |
For assault of M. S. L. Mynatt. |
East | Range: 19 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1662 | 26 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1878 | Henry Payne et al.v. State | Davidson | Assault with Force and Arms |
Additional parties: John Robinson, Henry Frierson, Ive Lorris. The official charge in this case was Malicious Shooting. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 38 | 0 | 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 | Henry Crissen v. State | Knox | Assault and Battery |
Incomplete case. Opinion only. Date unknown. Victim: S. Foust |
East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 814 | 3 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1844 | Henry A. Farnsworth v. John Walker, Caspien Easterly & John A. Park& Henry A. Farnesworth v. Samuel Allen | Greene | Assault with Force and Arms |
Defendants: Mordecai Lincoln, Charles Gafs. Defendants charged with trespass with force and arms and damages of $500, for assaulting (beating) plaintiff, detaining him for over 24 hours, and taking possession of his mare. Incident took place Oct. 1, 1836 in Greenville, Tenn. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1129 | 46 | 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 | 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 | 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 |