The State vs. the Dead Body of Hammond Frasier

Date: 
November 6, 1897

Deceased

Hammond Frasier
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say: That Hammond Frasier come to his death by a gun Shot wound and the Said wound was made by a pistol in the hand of James Hampton

Coroner

Coroner: 
L. G. Bell
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Trenton S.C.
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
James Hampton
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

I Saw James Hampton Standing on the pizaza. I Started off. I Saw a man run upon the pizaza with a Stick and Struck at James Hampton. Then Shooting Commenced. James Hampton and Hammond Frasier were the men. I do not Know how Shots were fired James Hampton Shot Hammond Frasier. He fell after the Shooting Stoped there is no doubt about James Hampton Shooting him

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