The State vs. the Dead Body of Andy Padgett

Date: 
July 5, 1891

Deceased

Andy Padgett
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that. . .was deceased stabbed to death With a Knife in the hands of one[?] Rufus Dent

Coroner

Coroner: 
N. W. Brooker
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near Ridge Spring
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Rufus Dent
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Andy and Rufus were talking and bragging on their manhood like people[?] [?] I saw Rufus Dent raise his Knife and cut Andy Padgett ... Andy was drunk- Rufus was Sober ... I saw Rufus cutting fast at Andy at his breast

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