Roane Co. TN - Arrest Warrant for Caleb Wood - 1822

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1822 Arrest & Indictment of Caleb Wood

State of Tennessee.  To the Sheriff of Roane county:  Greeting.  
You are hereby commanded to take the body of Caleb Wood instantly, 
if to be found in your county, and him safely keep so that you have 
him before the Justices of our Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 
now sitting for said County, at the Courthouse, in Kingston, then 
and there to answer a charge of the state exhibited against him by 
an Indictment for and assault and battery.  And have then there this 
writ.  Witness, Henry Breazeale, Clerk of said Court, at office, in 
Kingston, the 4th Monday in July, A.D. 1822.


State of Tennessee, Roane County, July Session, 1822.  The grand jurors 
for the state, elected, impaneled, sworn, and charged to inquire for the 
body of the County aforesaid upon their oath present that a certain 
Caleb Wood, late of said county labors on the twenty-second day of 
July 1822 at to wit in said county with force and arms, an assault did 
make upon the body of a certain John Oliver and with the said John did 
then and there greatly beat, wound, and ill treat him, cause damage and 
against the peace and dignity of the state.  
W. A. Anderson, Atty. Genl. For the 4th District.