The State vs. the Dead Body of John Butler

very much beat & bruised and also some 16 stabs and cuts appearingly done with a knife

Date: 
October 23, 1850

Deceased

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

upon their Oaths do say that the said John A. Butler was killed & murdered by some person or persons to the Jurors unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Anderson
Coroner Title: 
M.D.D. acting coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the House of Mr Seth Butler
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

found the decd Butler near to Mr Wily Glovers mills in said district very much beat & bruised and also some 16 stabs and cuts appearingly done with a knife on his right side reaching to his arm ... he supposed the act had been done by some negro.

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