The State vs. the Dead Body of James Hitt

Date: 
April 1, 1857

Deceased

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

upon their oaths do Say, they find a severe cut on the inside of the right Thigh and a cut on the head appears to have been inflicted by a knife but where done, or by whom done is to them unknown but upon their oaths do say that the Deceased came to his death from wounds inflicted upon his person as above stated by some person & means unknown to them...

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mary Hays
County: 

Source

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