This collection consists of Donald Paine’s research materials and resulting articles and lecture regarding the case of Tennessee v. Louis Fain. These records include an audio CD and information pamphlet from a presentation held at the Knoxville Bar Association’s Lunch and Learn event, a draft of an article to be published in April 2010, a column in the August 2009 edition of Dicta, notes regarding Louis Fain’s life and family, notes regarding Carrie Allen’s life and family, correspondence between Paine and others who have researched the case, notes and correspondence with Allen’s relatives, and photographs of Allen's and Fain's gravesites. Also included are derivative court records, transcripts, and notes on the trial personnel, derivative newspaper articles discussing such subjects as Allen's death, Fain’s trial and execution, and the similar death of Mary Hawkins in 1951, and photographs, an article, and copies from a Ron Allen publication regarding the history of the Mechanicsville neighborhood where Fain lived.