I found it in the archives!

I have been volunteering at the Green County Archies for about a month and a half now. The project that I have been assigned to do is alphabetizing the probate records from the 19th century. I have found some interesting stories

I was first working on the lunacy cases, where I found the case of a young man in his early twenties who was trying to smite people by holding his hand in front of their faces. I bet he was fun at parties.

But my favorite case has to be a case from 1885. A young man had recently lived through the death of his sister. At the trial for her murderer, apparently the Judge (whose name was Scroggy, how awesome a name is that??) made some comments about his sister that he didn't like so much. So when this young man encountered Scroggy on the streets a few months later, he wasn't too pleased with him. He also happened to be in a drunken state, so you know he was making good decisions. Well, he decided that punching Scroggy on the back of the head while he was walking away was a good idea. Probably not, sir. 

So the moral of the story: don't go around punching judges. In a hundred years or so, someone will be laughing at your court transcript.