In 1806, twelve-year-old Mary Doherty was accused of killing her father in Hawkins County, Tennessee. At her trial in Jonesborough, she remained silent and apparently unaware of the proceedings. The court found her mute by “visitation from God” and sent the case to the jury for a verdict.
That jury’s finding, and what happened the next day, are part of one of the strangest murder cases in early Tennessee history, another one of the Stories of Appalachia.
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