The State vs. the Dead Body of Al White

Date: 
October 12, 1898

Deceased

Al White
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Al White came to his death by a gun show wound in the hands of Will McClenden in the discharge of his duty & that said act was justified in self Defence

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. M. W. Glover
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mundy[?] Place
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Will McClenden
Inquest Images: 
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