The State vs. the Dead Body of Charles Hobbs

Date: 
October 1, 1817

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

Do say uppon there oaths after hearing all the Evidence that cold [sic] be obtained that it is there oppinion that through Intoxication he fell from his hors [sic] and Sufficated [sic] in the mud and watter as it was a Night of Very hard Rain and he was found in a hollow and partly covered with mud and the same.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the highway near John Blacks
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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