The State vs. the Dead Body of Robert J. Butler

Date: 
September 15, 1864

Deceased

Robert J. Butler
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that Robert J Butler sen[?] came to his death by gun shot wound inflicted by Doct J D Twiggs

Coroner

Coroner: 
R. L. Gentry
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Hamburg
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
John David Twiggs
Inquest Images: 
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