The State vs. the Dead Body of Richard Mims

Date: 
August 1, 1899

Deceased

Richard Mims
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say: that Richard Mims came to his death by a pistol Shot in the hands of John McManus . . . accidental Shot of John McManus

Coroner

Coroner: 
L. G. Bell
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Mrs. H. Carter
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
John McManus
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

John Mcmanas will be ten years old in August Richard mims was fourteen years old

Johnnie Mcmanus Sworn Says, I was fooling with the pistol and it went off and killed Richard in the house

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