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Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Coroner's Inquest

Petition Date

December 25, 1884

Earliest Record Date

December 25, 1884

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • Sherman, Washington
  • Lincoln County, Washington

People

  • White, Sterling P. (Petitioner)
  • Cody, John (Defendant)
  • Carpenter, J. W. (Judge)
 

[?] M A Lyle M. D.

Find by post mortem examination of the body of A.L. Beardon. That he died of internal hemorage. Said hemorage caused by a pistol ball entering the body between the tenth and eleventh ribs and penetrating through the inner walls of the abdomen.

Dec 25 1884

M. A. Lyle M.D. Sherman
Lincoln Co.

Sworn & subsribed before me a W.T. Justice of the Peace acting coroner in for the county of Lincoln W.T. this 25th day of December A.D. 1884

J.W. Carpenter
Justice of the Peace
Acting Coroner

 

Filed March 6th 1885
Kate W. Feuerbach
Clerk

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Sterling P. White v. John Cody. Coroner's Inquest.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0126.076

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