The State vs. the Dead Body of Teague Tillman

Date: 
October 2, 1899

Deceased

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

upon their Oaths do Say: That Teague Tillman came to his death . . . by pistol in the hands of Will Perminter

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Thos. H. Ramsford

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Will Perminter
Inquest Images: 
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