The State vs. the Dead Body of John Kirk

Date: 
November 28, 1826

Deceased

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

do say upon their oaths that one negro man to wit Harry belonging to Ms. Martha Ann Dickson with a stick about three feet long and the size of the wrist of a man struk and and gave the said John Kirk said stick upon aforesaid occipital bone with three other wounds...so the said negro man Harry then and there feloniously killed and murdered the said John Kirk

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the house of Ezekiel Jenkins

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Harry
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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