The State vs. the Dead Body of Miles Robuck

Date: 
December 16, 1856

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by having his head crushed between the head block and one of the arms of the Cog wheel of a Cotton Gin, that the said Miles Roebuck came to his death in manner and form aforesaid, by misfortune or accident.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of S.S. Roebuck
County: 

Source

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