Depending on your age, you might or not remember the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue”, but many may not know it is inspired, but not based, on Judge Sue K. Hicks . Hicks is from Monroe County, Tennessee, and died in 1980. One of the lawyers who tried cases before him was a man named Ray Jenkins , who would go on to become a bigger name than a courtroom in backwoods Tennessee. Jenkins would go on to write his memoirs called The Terror of Tellico Plains , which had many amusing stories of his time as a lawyer. Fun Meeting In his memoirs, Jenkins talked about defending a woman accused of murdering her husband before Judge Hicks. Hicks is not said to have met the woman before, heard the case, and found her innocent, whether it was true or Jenkins' defense plan. Jenkins, after the case, started seeing Judge Hicks, who was single, with her out in public. Hicks and the woman would go on to get married, with the Judge dying of old age. While many other stories can be told about either