The State vs. the Dead Body of slave

Date: 
January 25, 1836

Deceased

slave
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Benjamin Bineham
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Exposure
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that he came to his death by being intoxicated, falling in a rut or gully and thereby the storm[?] rain & sleet has drowned or frose [sic] to Death

Coroner

Coroner: 
Thomas Smyrl[?]
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Daniel L. Desaushore[?]
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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