The State vs. the Dead Body of Jane Smith

Date: 
March 24, 1884

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Jane Smith came to her death by a dose of Strychnine accidentally given her for Colomel and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid, do say the aforesaid Jane Smith came to her death in the manner as before said.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Tip Top
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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