The State vs. the Dead Body of Nettie Jefferson

Date: 
March 17, 1936

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
frying pan
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Nettie Jefferson received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by a frying Pan in the hands of Alonzo Jefferson

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Chesterfield

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Alonzo Jefferson
Inquest Images: 
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