The State vs. the Dead Body of Certain Mail Bastard Child

Date: 
January 16, 1838

Deceased

Description: 
Certain Mail Bastard Child
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Martha McConathy
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say on these oaths that the said child came to its death either by being smothered or for the want of that attention which was necessary to sustain life and which was Intentionally withheld from it. And that the mother of the child (viz) Martha McConathy was the principle in the crime and that Isabelah McConathy Accessory to it.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Joseph McConathy
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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