The State vs. the Dead Body of William Thurmond

with the said chair, several times in Rapid succession and knocked the deceased down on the floor, the blood flowed Rapidly from his head

Date: 
February 14, 1856

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say, that he the deceased was Killed, by a blow with a chair, in the hands of William P Jones ... inflicted on the head

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Huiet
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Edgefield Court House, Planters[?] Hotel
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
William P Jones
Inquest Images: 
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