The State vs. the Dead Body of Wilson Griffin

Date: 
February 13, 1867

Deceased

Wilson Griffin
Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Wilson Griffin freedman came to his death from a gun or pistole shot wound in the hands of some person or persons to the jurors unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
M. M. Padgett
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Luke Rodgers
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

Wilson was very obstinate and contentios

Wilson was impudent & contentious

e has heard Wilson say that Frank Sample had threatened to killed him which was the cause of his leaving that neighborhood

Wilson was Quarrelsome says he has heard Wilson say he had to leave his old neighborhood for his life had been threatened so he had to leave

he was very contentious & crabbed towards white people

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