The State vs. the Dead Body of Loucille Pate Cassidy

Date: 
June 19, 1939

Deceased

Loucille Pate Cassidy
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Loucille Pate Cassidy received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by a pistol

Coroner

Coroner Title: 
Unknown

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Chesterfield
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Officer's Statement. . . The deceased told me as follows about who shot, cut, etc. him and the case of the trouble. That she was projecking with the gun and it went off

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