The State vs. the Dead Body of Bare Sikes

Date: 
November 24, 1943

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
bus
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Bare Sikes received in Chesterfield County a mortal wound by Green City Bus in the hands of H. M. Smith, driver

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Pageland

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
H. M. Smith
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