The State vs. the Dead Body of Hezekiah Robbins

Date: 
November 5, 1865

Deceased

Hezekiah Robbins
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there [sic] oaths do say that they are satisfied he came to her death. . . by a stab from a knife in the left thigh in the hand of Hubbard Cash

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elias Wall
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Hezekiah Robbins
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Hubbard Cash
Inquest Images: 
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