The State vs. the Dead Body of Captain

Date:

January 24, 1824

Deceased

Captain

Description:

slave

Sex:

Male

Race:

Black

Slave Status:

Enslaved

Owner:

John Boykin

COD Category:

Homicide

COD:

Sharp Instrument

COD Method/Implement:

knife

COD Inquest Finding:

do say upon their oaths that they are of opinion that the deceased was killed on the morning fo the 21st January 1824 between daylight and sun rise with a knife being cut upon the chin and stabbed in the upper part of the right breast near the collar bone and so jurors conclude that the deceased was feloniously killed by some person unknown