The State vs. the Dead Body of Cleveland Smith

Date: 
December 13, 1934

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that Cleveland Smith received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Shot gun in the hands of Coleman Smothers on the 12 day of December 1934, and that from such mortal wound deceased died in Chesterfield County on 12-12-34.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at McBee

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Coleman Smothers
Inquest Images: 
L13063_0379_01.jpg
L13063_0379_02.jpg
L13063_0379_03.jpg
L13063_0379_04.jpg
L13063_0379_05.jpg
L13063_0379_06.jpg
L13063_0379_07.jpg
L13063_0379_08.jpg
L13063_0379_09.jpg
L13063_0379_10.jpg
L13063_0379_11.jpg

Get in touch

  • Department of History
    220 LeConte Hall, Baldwin Street
    University of Georgia
    Athens, GA 30602-1602
  • 706-542-2053
  • admin@ehistory.org

eHistory was founded at the University of Georgia in 2011 by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry

Learn More about eHistory

Supporters

+ American Council of Learned Societies
+ DigiLab, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia