The State vs. the Dead Body of Robert H. Holliday

Date: 
January 20, 1874

Deceased

Robert H. Holliday
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that?Robert Holliday was wounded by a pistol shot, inflicted by a pistol in the hands of John Henry Vermillion; of which wound said Robert Holliday did die?John Henry Vermillion then and there maliciously did kill.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Warren D. Wilkes
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Calhoun
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
John Henry Vermillion
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