The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis Moore

Date: 
November 30, 1891

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that one Lewis Moore . . .came to his death from wounds in right arm inflicted with pocket knife in the hands of Robert Bauknight (Col)

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Robert Smith

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Robert Bauknight
Perpetrator Description: 
Col
Inquest Images: 
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