Geo. T. Mefford sued Tom Walker and another where the Owen County Grand Jury accused Thomas M. Walker, Willis Russell, William Graves, Charles Walker and John Wilson of the crime of willfully and maliciously shooting and wounding another person with the intent to kill said person unlawfully.

The Grand Jury said that (these men) in the said County of Owen on the ___day of August A.D. 1874, with force and arms feloniously did willfully maliciously and unlawfully, and not in the necessary self defense of them or either of them, shoot at and wound George Mefford with guns and pistols, said guns and pistols being deadly weapons loaded with powder and leaden balls or other hard substances, which guns and pistols the said Thomas M. Walker, Willis Russell, William Graves, Charles Walker and John Wilson there and then held in their hands, thereby inflicting upon the person and body of the said George Mefford one and more severe and dangerous wounds, with the felonious intent him the said George Mefford thus and there to kill and murder, but of which shooting and wounding the said George Mefford did not die.