The State vs. the Dead Body of Samuel Hudgens

Date: 
November 9, 1854

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
laudanum
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say it appearing from the examination of the body, & Testimony that the said Samuel Hudgins came to his death at his own residence on the 9th of November 1854 from an accessive [sic] uses [sic] of Laddnum taken at his own will & from his own hands.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Samuel Hudgens
County: 

Source

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