The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
November 13, 1857

Deceased

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Emeline Littlefield
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that from an examination of the dead body of the child and from the testimony produced and examined before us we have no cause to believe that any violence was used upon the body of the child to cause its death but that it came to its death from some cause or causes unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Asail Littlefield's

Source

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