The State vs. the Dead Body of Woodward King

Date: 
July 16, 1820

Deceased

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

do say upon their oaths that from the examination of the corpse and information received from children they believe that he came to his death. . .by a shot from a pistol in the hands of his brother Mancel King aged ten years accidentally without any intention of killing

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Capt. Boles[?] Hamilton's

Source

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