The State vs. the Dead Body of Christopher Campbell

Date: 
April 16, 1835

Deceased

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

after hearing the evidence together with the opinion of Doctors DeLeon and Young are of opinion that the deceased came to his death from a disease of the brain hastened by blows on his head inflicted by some person or persons unknown

Location

County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator Description: 
slave
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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