The State vs. the Dead Body of David Weatherspoon

Date: 
April 5, 1827

Deceased

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

[do] say that they think according to the evidence given by Sally and Ly[?] Chandler that the s'd David Weatherspoon was accessory to his own Death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the dwelling house of Thomas Davis

Source

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