L. Roy Lavender

First Name: L.
Middle Name(s): Roy
Last Name: Lavender
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that one James Sessions[?] feloniously voulantary and of his own malice aforethought made an assault uppon the said L.R. Lavender with a [?] dirk knife made of Iron and Steel of the value of $1.25 [?] Mortal Wound . . . which Mortal Wound by the Stab of Said Knife the said L.R. Lavender came to his death.

COD Short Description: 
stab wounds
Original Record: 
4603

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