The State vs. the Dead Body of Allen

Date: 
September 19, 1843

Deceased

Allen
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
William Waldrip
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
hickory clubs
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Allen. . . was killed and murdered by some person or persons to the jurors unknown with two hickory clubs

Coroner

Coroner: 
J.[?] T.[?] Lanford
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Samson Bobo's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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