The State vs. the Dead Body of Willie Toney

Date: 
March 26, 1899

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do Say: . . . that the aforesaid Willie Toney came to his death by gun shot wounds inflicted by weapons in the hand of Robert Coill[?], Dan Coward, Hill Hoawrd and R. L. Burnett as principals. Milledge Reese and A. J. Corley as accessories.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Edgefield Court House

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
posse
Inquest Images: 
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