The State vs. the Dead Body of Joe

Date: 
June 26, 1837

Deceased

Joe
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

are of the opinion that he [Joe] came to his death by a wound in his abdomen near his navel about one inch in Length committed on the body of Joe by the Hand of one Robert Freeman on the 22nd of June 1837.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Silas Ruff
Coroner Title: 
Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of John Holley
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Robert Freeman
Inquest Images: 
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