The State vs. the Dead Body of Spencer Mays

Date: 
November 8, 1866

Deceased

Spencer Mays
Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

the said Spencer Mays freedman came to his death do say that the said Spencer came to his death by a Pistol shot in the hands of Charles Warren freedman the ball entering just above the left knee

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Murrell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Buslys
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Charles Warren
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Alfred Warren came in with a Pistol sticking in his pocket and Charles Warren freedmen taken it out of Alfred Warren freedman Pocket he Charles sit down by the side of Spence and commence turning the wheel it was half cocked and it went off Charles had his finger on the trigger and he did not think it would go off but it fired and shot Spence

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