The State vs. the Dead Body of Giles Guess

Date: 
February 2, 1882

Deceased

Giles Guess
Description: 
colored
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the deceased was willfully killed by the hand of one Isaac Putnam by shooting deceased with a pistol and that Silas Putnam was accessory to the killing about seven or eight oclock in the afternoon at the house of one John Smith

Coroner

Coroner: 
R. N. Telright
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the hosue of John Smith
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Isaac Putnam, Silas Putnam (accessory)
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