The State vs. the Dead Body of Yancy Hardy

Date: 
December 31, 1877

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say that the said Yancy Hardy Came to his death from A Pistol Shot wound from a Pistol in the hands of Pierce Winfreed

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Dr. GJ[?] Butlers Plantation

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Pierce Winfreed
Inquest Images: 
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