The State vs. the Dead Body of William Mauldin

Date: 
September 15, 1867

Deceased

William Mauldin
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
rock
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said William Mauldin came to his death. . .from a blow or blows inflicted with a rock or rocks from the hands of John Burgess

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. B. Woodruff
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Emoree Factory
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
John Burgess
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