The State vs. the Dead Body of Cubiner

Date: 
October 27, 1844

Deceased

Cubiner
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Benjamin Haile
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said negro slave named Cubiner, the property of Capt. B. Hail, came to his death by shooting himself through the head with a double barrelled gun

Coroner

Coroner: 
C. A. McDonald
Coroner Title: 
magistrate, acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of B. Haile
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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