The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis Hall

Date (Partial/Ambiguous): 
1883--

Deceased

Lewis Hall
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, That Lewis Hall was killed on the 9th day of January 1883, in Fairfield County in what manner and with what instrument unknown to the Jurors

Coroner

Coroner: 
John J. Neil

Location

Inquest Location: 
in Fairfield County, South Carolina
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Unknown
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

R.B. Hanahan M.D. sworn says that he found the body of this man the left hand protruding from the cotton seed, the body was covered about three feet deep under the cotton seed, upon removing the seed, found the head beat upon the cheek there were marks on the body sufficient to have caused death.

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