The State vs. the Dead Body of James Pinson

Date: 
December 5, 1864

Deceased

James Pinson
Description: 
deserter
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .was killed and homicideed by some person or persons (by a gun shot (in the breast on the morng of the 4th inst) to) the jurors unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Alexander McBee
Coroner Title: 
MGD acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Greenville CH
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Col. Ino[?] D. Ashmore
Inquest Images: 
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