The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Clark

Date: 
September 14, 1811

Deceased

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

do say upon their oaths that the said Thomas Clark came to his death by a blow received with a stick above his left temple struck by the hand of Stephen Carter of which he died in about four hours afterward

Location

Inquest Location: 
at plantation on Little Lynches Creek
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Stephen Carter
Inquest Images: 
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