Plaintiffs are appealing the charge that they stole a mule.

Assault with intent to commit rape upon Roxzana Bailiff

T. C. Maddox was assaulted

Opinion only. DeKalb County case found in East TN boxes.

Cause of Action: Burglary with intent to commit rape. John Carter is listed as "colored."

In 1873 Johnson allegedly beat up William W. Coldwell. He was charged with assault the same day and an affidavit was created with a witness statement supporting the charge.

Defendants: Jonathan Hall and his children John Hall and Helen Hall.

Defendant is accused of selling a pistol to a minor.

A constable is charged with taking twice his agreed salary. ($1 instead of $.50).

Verdict and sentence only.

The State charged Blankenship with the "malicious stabbing" of R. L. McDowell. McDowell testified that he went to Gum Springs school with Len Cantrell to peaceably clear up issues with the defendant and he stabbed him. The defendant claimed the plaintiff made repeated threats on his life.

Attorneys: Webb & Cantrell & Avant, Wade & Robinson & Attorney General for State. Victim: Will Colwell

The defendant was accused of stealing money from Noah Adcock. The defendant also went by the alias Polk Jones.

Cause of Action: Selling liquor without a license.

As his daughter Mary (16) was riding mare owned by her grandpa John Griffith (with whom she lived) on her way to church at Cooper's Chapel, John came from behind cedar bushes, dragged her off mare & beat her with a stick. He had beaten her before & made "improper proposals." At one point, Mary falsified affidavit "to try to restore [her father] to his position in the church." Mentioned: brother Jasper, sister Josie, grandfather Hord Vickers, uncles W.J. & J.P. Vickers, mom Lucy, Isaac Cooper.

Webb indicted for Failure to Settle as Guardian because he willfully neglected to produce either a statement or an accounting of profits/disbursements of the estate of his minor ward, Lelia Sauders, or to appear in court as required. Indictment quashed because it did not charge Webb with an offense. See case related to this guardianship: Err [Er] Wood, next friend of Lela Sauders v. B. M. Webb, guardian of Lela Sauders, MT Box 742.

Adcock charged with assault and beat Jennie Wooldridge. Prior to the assault, Adcock, who was married, had sexual relations with Wooldridge. It's possible Wooldridge had sexual relations with multiple men. Jury found Adcock guilty and fined him $200.

Stokes charged with murdering Thomas Benton Stokes. Jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced him to 10 years in the penitentiary.

The defendant is accused of entering a church and disrupting worship by speaking and shaking hands with members of the congregation. Witnesses note that the defendant was noticeably intoxicated at the time of the disruption.