The State vs. the Dead Body of Joseph Homer Lavinge

Date: 
July 5, 1940

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
automobile
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Joseph Homer Lavinge received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Automobile Wreck in the hands of Billie Nicholson

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Jefferson

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Billie Nicholson
Inquest Images: 
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