The State vs. the Dead Body of John Henry Hitch

Date: 
August 28, 1837

Deceased

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

do say upon their oaths that the said John Henry Hitch, not having God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil near the house of John Hitch aforesaid, in a certain wood standing and being the said John Henry Hitch being then and there alone with a certain bridle reins which he then and there had and held in his hands, and one end thereof he then and put about his neck, and the other end thereof he tied about a bough of a certain dogwood tree and himself then and there with the bridle reins aforesaid voluntarily and feloniously and of his malice aforethough, hanged and suffocated...

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the House of John Hitch
County: 

Source

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