Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1890 Bud Bradley v. State Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Victim: Henry Sheppard

 West Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 552 54 Order A Copy
View Entry 1901 Charlie W. Harrison v. State Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Victim: F. M. Hays.
Also charged in a 2nd, related case (also in WT 770) w/ charge of carrying an illegal weapon.

 West Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 770 36 Order A Copy
View Entry 1889 Henry White v. State Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Victim: M. C. Whitehurst.

 West Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 490 149 Order A Copy
View Entry 1918 John Bell v. State Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

2 folders. Plaintiff was originally indicted for a charge of assault and battery upon Emmett Dement with a pistol with the intent to commit murder in the first degree. This file is an appeal to the original bill.

 West Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1506 262 Order A Copy
View Entry 1880 State v. Newton Bowin Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

The defendant, an African-American, was accused of stabbing a man named Sam Olliphant.

 West Range: 84 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 149 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1932 State v. J. D. Kenton Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

"Derwood" Kenton was accused of shooting Tolly Coleman with a shotgun in an attempt to murder Coleman.

 West Range: 77 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 2136 9 Order A Copy
View Entry 1886 State v. Lee Brown Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

The victim's name was William Baxter.

 West Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 294 73 Order A Copy
View Entry 1892 State v. John Morton Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Defendant is charged with assaulting Lewis Rodgers with a knife with the intent "willfully and maliciously to kill and murder him … in the second degree."

 West Range: 83 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 340 90 Order A Copy
View Entry 1894 S. D. Edmiston v. State Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

S.D. Edmiston is charged with stabbing and attempting to kill Race Barnes.

 West Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 597 43 Order A Copy
View Entry 1921 State v. Albert Butler Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Charged with assault and battery along with attempted second degree murder. Victim was Will Dowtin.

 West Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1659 221 Order A Copy
View Entry 1921 State v. Elmer Green Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Victim listed as Sam Harris.

 West Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1660 14 Order A Copy
View Entry 1902 State v. Henry Frazier Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Frazier is accused of assault with intent to commit murder for holding a six-year-old girl over a blazing fire until she was terribly burned over her entire back. One accusation is that he burned her to conceal the fact that he had already burned one of his newborn twins to death (he says it was the after-birth); another is that he was angry when she didn't bring him a needle he had asked for; another is that she slipped and fell backwards into the fire.

 West Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 848 20 Order A Copy
View Entry 1904 State v. M. P. Langford Gibson Assault with Intent to Kill

Victim: H. D. Mason

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 998 36 Order A Copy