The State vs. the Dead Body of Archibald Nicholson

Date: 
July 26, 1869

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said deceased came to his death by a blow or lick inflicted on the side of the head, at Mount Croghan in the County aforesaid on the 24h day of July, A.D. 1869 with a Gun in the hands of Jacob Brewer

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Archibald Nicholson

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Jacob Brewer
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