The State vs. the Dead Body of Harry Anderson

Date: 
December 16, 1882

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that eceased came to his death from gun shot wound ... made with a pistol ... the shot being fired by one Andrew Harris

Coroner

Coroner: 
N. W. Brooker
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Clinton Ward
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Andrew Harris
Inquest Images: 
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