The State vs. the Dead Body of Tom

Date: 
December 18, 1858

Deceased

Tom
Description: 
negro slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Chlo Watson
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Jim in manner and form aforesaid, Tom then and there feloniously did kill

Coroner

Coroner: 
John A. Lott
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Chlo Watsons
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Tom
Perpetrator Description: 
negro man
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Transcription: 

a negro man name Jim killed said Tom yesterday evening about sundown by striking him with a club axe on the top of the head

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