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| View Entry | D. P. Carter & June Cameron v. State | Hamblen | Unlawful Cohabitation |
Carter & Cameron are accused of unlawfully committing the offence of lewdness by living together as man and wife and being a nuisance to the public in violation of the law. Cameron was Carter's (age 71) housekeeper. "live and cohabit together, they not being married, in lewd acts of sexual intercourse, fornication and adultery, unlawfully, openly, notoriously, publicly, scandalously, wickedly, and corruptly, to the manifest corruption of their own and of the public morals, and to the common nuisance." |
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| View Entry | Estave Matthews, alias v. State | Sevier | Unlawful Cohabitation |
Cause of Action: "Lewdness" |
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| View Entry | George Green & Jane Greene v. State | Hamilton | Unlawful Cohabitation |
Plaintiffs in error are accused of cohabitating together as man and wife where George is a man of mix ancestor and referred to as a "negro mulatto," and Jane is a white woman. The document notes that George is of mixed blood descended from a third generation inclusive. Plaintiffs in error are sentenced to two years in jail. Green also spelled Greene. Dan Bryan and B.B. Bell are witnesses in this another cohabitation cases located in ET 1217. |
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| View Entry | Hugh Steele v. State | Knox | Unlawful Cohabitation |
The State charged Hugh Steel and Harriet Yarnell with unlawfully cohabitating without being married. Steele was convicted and requested a new trial, claiming that Harriet was a 41-year-old, married mother of eight children who he wa representing in her divorce case against her husband who she accused of adultry and inhumane treatment. Steel claimed the husband concocted the charge to impede the divorce. |
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| View Entry | James Melton and Rebecca Pratt in error v. State | Knox | Unlawful Cohabitation |
The State charged Pratt and Melton with lewdness for having sexual intercourse and cohabitating as man and wife without being legally married. |
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| View Entry | James Golden ex al., in error v. State | Hawkins | Unlawful Cohabitation |
The State accused the plaintiffs, James Golden alias Golden and Susan Fawbush alias Sus of unlawful cohabitation and lewdness. They appealed the charge. |
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| View Entry | James Roberson & Mollie Roberson v. State | Hamilton | Unlawful Cohabitation |
Plaintiffs in error are accused of cohabitating together as man and wife where James is a man of mix ancestor and referred to as a "negro mulatto," and Mollie is a white woman. The document notes that James is of mixed blood descended from a third generation inclusive. The plaintiffs in error are sentenced to two years in jail. Dan Bryan and B.B. Bell are witnesses in this and another cohabitation case located in ET 1217. |
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| View Entry | Lilburn Johnson, et al. v. State | Hawkins | Unlawful Cohabitation |
Add. defendant: Polly Kelly. Plaintiffs in error were accused of living together as man and wife without being legally married. Lilburn Johnson was an African American man. Polly Kelly claimed to have "mixed blood," but was considered a white woman. Witnesses noted that Polly had two "colored," children. It is unclear if Lilburn was their father. Polly and her brother James Murphy were described as having a dark complexion and "kinky," hair. |
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| View Entry | Miles Pryor& Aggie Redman v. State | Hamilton | Unlawful Cohabitation |
Plaintiffs in error are accused of cohabitating together as man and wife where Pryor is a man of mix ancestor and referred to as a "negro mulatto," and Redman is a white woman. The document notes that Pryor is of mixed blood descended from a third generation inclusive. |
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| View Entry | State v. Joseph Prater & Eliza Parker | Knox | Unlawful Cohabitation |
Case incomplete; opinion only. |
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| View Entry | State v. James Turman& Grace Ward | Sullivan | Unlawful Cohabitation | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | State v. Jim Horrace Copeland | Putnam | Unlawful Cohabitation | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | State v. William V. Ferguson | Sullivan | Unlawful Cohabitation | Tennessee Supreme Court Cases | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | William Johnson in error v. State | Campbell | Unlawful Cohabitation |
State charged William Johnson and Jiney Jones with lewdness and unlawful cohabitation. |
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| View Entry | William Johnson in error v. State | Campbell | Unlawful Cohabitation |
The State charged the defendant with unlawful cohabitation and lewdness with Jiney Jones. |
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