The State vs. the Dead Body of Willis

Date: 
October 5, 1847

Deceased

Willis
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
James Burnett
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
rock
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say he came to his death by a wound with a rock in the forehead at the camp meeting at Prospect[?] by the hands of Dave belonging to John Liles of Polk County, N.C.

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. Wingo
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at James Burnett's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

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