The State vs. the Dead Body of Allen S. Barksdale

I then struck him two licks with an axe. I then kept striking at him with the axe and he cutting at me with the knife, I then fell out at the door & he followed me. I then got hold of a hoe & struck him two licks. I then got hold of the axe and struck him again.

Date:

June 23, 1876

Deceased

Allen S. Barksdale

Sex:

Male

Race:

White

COD Category:

Homicide

COD:

Sharp Instrument

COD Method/Implement:

axe

COD Inquest Finding:

do say that Allen S. Barksdale came ot his death by an axe in the hands of Mary A. Gray on the night of 22nd June 1876 in self-defense in her own house and yard with several wounds with a mortal wound inflicted with ^the edge of^ an axe upon the top of the head to length of 3 inches severing in the skull bone.