James Hitt

First Name: James
Last Name: Hitt
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say, they find a severe cut on the inside of the right Thigh and a cut on the head appears to have been inflicted by a knife but where done, or by whom done is to them unknown but upon their oaths do say that the Deceased came to his death from wounds inflicted upon his person as above stated by some person & means unknown to them...

COD Short Description: 
cut himself
Original Record: 
5171

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