The State vs. the Dead Body of infant female child

The hogs had eat one of its arms off & when they went the 2nd time the hogs had torn out its entrails

Date: 
March 31, 1857

Deceased

Description: 
infant female child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the infanct was killed or homicideed by some person or persons, or (by some means) came to its death to the jurors unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Turner Duncan's

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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