The State vs. the Dead Body of Rolen Hutcheson

Date: 
January 3, 1803

Deceased

Rolen Hutcheson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
shovel
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths. . .say that the aforesaid Wm. Davis . . .did with a large wooden shovel strike the sd. Rolen Hutcheson on the head which did brake the skull

Coroner

Coroner: 
Alexander Evins
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the dwelling house of William Davis
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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