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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1932 | Robert Berry v. State | Hancock | Murder |
Additional Materials located in ET 84. Pla. in error is accused of murdering John Johnson with a pistol. It is alleged that Johnson and Berry's wife Zella Harrell had been intimate, and that Zella may have miscarried Johnson's child after he attacked and forced himself on to her. John Johnson lived with his brother Charley and sister Lelie on the farm where Robert Berry was raised. The murder occurred across the road from a store owned by Clint Herrell. |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1360 | 93 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1932 | State v. Lonnie Hugh Bowlin | Hancock | Murder |
Victim: Henry Davidson. |
East | Range: 10 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1415 | 173 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1932 | Wardell Collins v. State | Hancock | Murder |
Plaintiff in error is accused of murdering Mathes Goins. Goins was married and had one baby and lived with his father, Tennessee Goins. Goins was killed at the Vardy Church house which was being used as a community school for adults in the evening. Pla. in error states that Goins was causing a disturbance at the church and when confronted, attacked him. Goins' wife is now a patient in an insane asylum near Knoxville due to mental illness caused by Pellagra. See also box 1543. |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1360 | 46 | Order A Copy |