The State vs. the Dead Body of Bill

Date: 
September 29, 1861

Deceased

Bill
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Jesse Motes
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
stick
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death at Clement Wells on the night of the 27th inst by means of a blow upon the head with a stick in the hands of a negro man slave named Lank the property of John G. Turner.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Henry Oneall
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at HN Carters
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Lake
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Mrs Griffin Charles They boys was hollowing told him they must not have any quarreling, after that Lank went up and struck decd on the head with stick a good large stick decd asked who struck him told him he did not like it it was three minutes before decd spoke in about five minutes he was speechless...

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