The State vs. the Dead Body of Margret Faye Davis

Date: 
September 22, 1941

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
automobile
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Margret Faye Davis received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by being hit accidently by an automobile in the hands of Robert Lee Smith

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Chesterfield

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Robert Lee Slits
Inquest Images: 
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