The State vs. the Dead Body of Newton Cox

there had been a blow inflicted and under the blow the scul was fractured circular

Date: 
October 30, 1875

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
axe
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say Newton Cox . . .came to his death. . . from a blow struck on his head [?] an axe in the hands of one Charlie Sulivan at the house of one Joycy Batson

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Robert Thomson's

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Charlie Sulivan
Inquest Images: 
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