The State vs. the Dead Body of Patterson Blackwill

Date: 
May 22, 1914

Deceased

Patterson Blackwill
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

on the 22 day of May 1914 find that the deceased came to his death by a gun Shot wound in the heands of J. A. Blackwill and our virdic is a justified homiside this 22 day of May 1914

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. W. Cassidy
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
in Chesterfield County, South Carolina
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
J. A. Blackwill
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

J. A. Blackwill Statement Patterson Blackwill come to my house and swor he would kill me he had his gun in hand and I told him to leave my yard and he Raised his gun to shoot and I shot him and kill him.

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