The State vs. the Dead Body of Robert H. Pettigrew

Date: 
December 27, 1872

Deceased

Robert H. Pettigrew
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say from a wound on his left side between the second and eight ribs penetrating to the. . .by a knife

Coroner

Coroner: 
D. L. Hall
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at James H. Wiles house
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
A. M. Pettigrew
Inquest Images: 
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