The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown Infant

Date: 
October 17, 1873

Deceased

Unknown Infant
Description: 
Unknown Infant
Sex: 
Unknown
Race: 
Unknown
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the afforesaid infant child in manner & form afforesaid Edna Young Feloniously did kill, against the peace & dignity of the same state afforesaid. . .

Coroner

Coroner: 
E. Thompson
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Abraham Cooks
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Edna Young
Inquest Images: 
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