The State vs. the Dead Body of James Miller

Date: 
March 29, 1847

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the said James Miller came to his death by hanging himself by the neck with a rope in his gin house while he was in a state of mental derangement

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of James Miller

Source

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