The State vs. the Dead Body of Samuel A. Geer

She heard some one hollow, then heard a gun fire. She got a torch, went to where her son was.... When she got near she heard him groan.

Date: 
January 15, 1866

Deceased

Samuel A. Geer
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
metallic instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said S. A. Geer was killed by blows over the head producing five separate fractures of the skull, near the residence of David Geer. . .by some metalic instrument in the hands of some person or persons unknown.

Coroner

Coroner: 
John C. Whitfield
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at David Geer's House
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
unknown person or persons; Andrew?
Perpetrator Description: 
a freedman?
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Free
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