The State vs. the Dead Body of William Penny

Date: 
March 5, 1839

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that from all testimony and Every Circumstance Connected therewith they are of the opinion that the deceased came to his death on the public high way by a fall from his horse

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mr. Thomas A. Rabbs

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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