The State vs. the Dead Body of Francis Stuart

Date: 
May 8, 1883

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that on the night of 7th of May 1883 about half past 8 O'clock the said Francis Stuart came to her death from the effects of a gun shot wound supposed to have been inflicted by Lewis Stuart, her husband, and so the jurors aforesaid, do say that the aforesaid Lewis Stuart, in manner and form aforesaid, Francis Stewart, then and there feloniously did kill against the peace and dignity of the said State aforesaid.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
in a house occupied by Henry Langford on the plantation of W.S. Pitts
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Lewis Stuart
Inquest Images: 
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