The State vs. the Dead Body of John Pedeu[Peden?]

Date: 
February 11, 1851

Deceased

John Pedeu[Peden?]
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
rifle
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say. . . came to his death. . . in consequence of a wound received on the sixth instance from a rifle ball

Coroner

Coroner: 
John J. Bennett
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of John S. Pedeu[?]
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Enoch Massey
Inquest Images: 
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