The State vs. the Dead Body of Elizabeth Knight

Date: 
June 27, 1885

Deceased

Elizabeth Knight
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say: That Elizabeth Knight in Manner and form aforesaid Came to her death by misfortune or accident By a gunshot wound on the right side of the Forehead which was caused by the careless handling of a gun in the hands of her little Brother

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. A. M. Millan
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Joseph Knight's residence
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Theodor Knight
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Theodor Knight (an infant) that was the unfortunate child that held the gun that inflicted the fatal would upon his sister Elizabeth Knight Say that he took down the gun to shoot a bird that the bird flew off and he started back with the gun and it fired off in is hands the Shot Striking his sister in the head. . .

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