The State vs. the Dead Body of Wilson Sosbee

Date: 
June 19, 1845

Deceased

Wilson Sosbee
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Wilson Sosbee came to his death by being shot wilfully with a shot gun by the hands of Joseph Hughes[?]

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. Wingo
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near G.B. Bishop's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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