The State vs. the Dead Body of Nelson Right

Date: 
September 6, 1873

Deceased

Nelson Right
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Nelson Right . . . [came] to his death from a wound in left shoulder in . . .knife or some other sharp instrument. The wound was in between the sholder blade and in a downward direction towards the heart?the said wound was inflicted by the hand of Robert Robertson

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elvin J. Person
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at or near...Darm Creek
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Robert Robertson
Inquest Images: 
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