Charges also include Burglary. Additional Plaintiffs: Robert Pierce and Bass Denton.

Charge: Curtis Roach, Bob Denny & Lula Denny abducted Dorothy Arnold for the purpose of prostitution & concubine. Roach was accused of having sexual relations with Dorothy for over a year before she was allegedly kidnapped. She said Curtis had promised to marry her. Some testimony regards the boys at the CCC camp. Surnames of those testifying: Bailey, Elmore, Loy, Vance, Willard, Bales, Bowman, Griffy, James, Lowery, Nance, Privett, Runion, Sellers, Sanders, Stansberry, Wooten, Wilson & West.

Cause of Action: Treason. The plaintiff in error is accused by the state of Treason during the Civil War. During the war, the plaintiff fought as a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army. The case seems to rest on the question of whether or not the plaintiff was attempting to subvert the authority of the State of Tennessee or the United States. If it was the country and not the state, the state would not have jurisdiction to try the case.

Frank Jones was charged with transporting and possessing illegal liquor. He was fined $200 and sentenced to six months in jail.

Plaintiffs originally charged with breaking into the granary belonging to W. A. & R. E. Beard in July 1936, & stealing 15 bushels of wheat valued at $20.00. Found guilty of receiving & concealing stolen property. Earl Nichols also indicted for this crime William & Henry Hubbard brothers.

Towns was accused of selling liquor without a license.

Northern claimed that he was entitled to ownership of "Kate" and "John," a pair of mules. He further claimed that Paul Hodge had unlawfully sold the mules to Elmore.

John Hodge was charged with unlawfully receiving and possessing intoxication liquors.

Incomplete case file. Technical record only. Plaintiff in error was convicted of murdering of Abbie Rainwater by strangulation and sentenced to death by electric chair.

Lewis Renean is charged with assaulting one Louisa Hill.

"Possessing Liquor."

Beason was a 14 year old minor. William Wheeler had a pistol displayed on display. Beason found the pistol in a tree hollow & showed it to a friend, Alex Henry. Wheeler reported the gun was missing & Henry pointed him to Beason. Defense plead doli incapax.

"Murder in the First Degree." Victim: Ray Moore.

David Anderson killed Hough Henry and Benjamin Henry offered a $500 reward for whoever apprehended Anderson. Pleasant Williams apprehended Henry in North Carolina. Henry then refused to pay Williams. Damages for $1000.

Victim: Stella Weems Smelcer. 2 folders. Newspapers also included.

Defendant cut and bit off the ear of John Tarwater. Court quashed the indictment and defendant let go. Cause of action: mayhem.

Theo Bateman and Ruben Peck have been charged with receiving stolen property. The stolen goods in question were bushels of beans.

Defendant found guilty of possessing intoxicating liquors in August 1936. Also accused of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquors into Tennessee from places unknown at that same time.

Defendant said to have sold spirituous liquors in no less quantities than one quart without first having attained a license, a misdemeanor. See ET 1155 for similar case from 1851 against defendant.

Isom ("Negro man, slave for life") accused of assaulting Mary W. Riggs, "widow (of full age) … a white free female" w/intent to rape. Isom was property of 1 or more Gillespies: Alfred, Eliza M. Gillespie (widow & admr. of George F. Gillespie, dec.), Henry (George's son), Elizabeth (m. William R. Casuelo) & Mary (m. M.J.K. Bowen) (George's daughters). Jury: Isom guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Isom: confession obtained by threats; coat Griggs used to identify him not worn that day; counsel was ill.

Ellis accused of stealing 200 fence rails from John Hunt, who said he noticed rails missing from his fence & saw rails he thought to be his on Ellis' fence, as they were marked the same way his rails were marked. Hunt & Ellis not on friendly terms, as (before rails taken) Ellis & wife Fanny sued Hunt for ejectment for land on which fence built, which fence Ellis claims is on his wife's land. Court directed verdict of not guilty.