The State vs. the Dead Body of L. Roy Lavender

Date: 
June 9, 1838

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that one James Sessions[?] feloniously voulantary and of his own malice aforethought made an assault uppon the said L.R. Lavender with a [?] dirk knife made of Iron and Steel of the value of $1.25 [?] Mortal Wound . . . which Mortal Wound by the Stab of Said Knife the said L.R. Lavender came to his death.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Lucey Lavenders

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
James Seshions
Inquest Images: 
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