The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
November 12, 1811

Deceased

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Elizabeth Hornsby
COD Category: 
Other
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the infant female child came to its death by injury received before its birth. . . and they are of opinion. . . that the injury which said infant child received. . . was done to it by its mother while it was yet in her womb

Location

County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Elizabeth Hornsby
Inquest Images: 
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