The State vs. the Dead Body of Jacob Pruitt

he said take the axe & chop his head off so he could be out of his misery

Date: 
March 15, 1878

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that at his own residence . . . said deceased did feloniously shoot him self in the abdomen with a rifle gun inflicting a wound of which he died

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of the late Jacob Pruitts

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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