The State vs. the Dead Body of Prince

saw him running with a knife sticking in his breast

Date: 
December 23, 1849

Deceased

Prince
Description: 
negro boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say, by a stab in the breast with a sharp pointed knife, held in the hands of a negro boy named Robert, about nine years old

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Anderson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Thos G. Lamars Mills on little horse creek
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Robert
Perpetrator Description: 
negro boy
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

the Boys Prince & Robert was around & about a fire near to where she was when they got to fighting ^she saw the dead, Price beat the Boy Robert with a chunck of wood, saw the prisoner Robert stick Prince with the knife in the breast

Saw Prince throw cold water & hot water on Robert when Robert told Prince to go away and let him alone

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