The State vs. the Dead Body of Booker

Date: 
March 30, 1823

Deceased

Booker
Description: 
negro
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Exposure
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that. . .the sd. negro. . .was axacery [sic] to his own death by drinking to [sic] much spirits and being exposed to the inclemency of the weather

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Crook
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation called Flint Hill[?]
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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