The State vs. the Dead Body of Daniel

Date: 
May 27, 1862

Deceased

Description: 
slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that Daniel came to his death by a wound in the hipp receive at Edgefield Court House in B. C. Bryant store from a Double Barrel shot gun in the hands of James Bryant

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John H. Fair

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
James Bryant
Inquest Images: 
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