The corpse by Jellon Lamb's hut
The moment before Charlie enters Jellon Lamb's shack, we see a corpse of a man with a white beard covered in flies. Whose corpse was that?
shareI appreciate that we never know that and are left to imagine what happened with regards to this minor detail. I'd assume that he was another bounty hunter that Lamb killed so that he wouldn't have to share the reward or lose out on it. I also imagine that he didn't really know who Charlie was and would have assumed Charlie was a bounty hunter as well, and that when he invited Charlie to have a drink with him in that odd little shack, he actually intended to kill Charlie also.
All speculation of course.
I was thinking the same - Lamb had either killed a rival, or else the corpse was one of his conquests (i.e. some minor outlaw with a bounty on his head that he managed to successfully hunt and kill).
The fact that Charlie only knocked Lamb out rather than killing him (combined with the mercy-killing shot to the head) was an important scene, showing that Charlie was only as violent as he had to be, unlike his psychopathic older brother who would kill at the slightest provocation (or for the sheer fun of it).
I suppose he could have been another minor outlaw, but that would mean he brought this other criminal along with him still alive and then killed him there. Which certainly could have happened, but I assumed he was another bounty hunter because would have run into him on the trail while tracking Arthur and his gang.
Good point about Charlie too. We may have suspected that aspect of his character to that point but that is the first concrete example that we actually see. And it's sort of disguised as an act of violence, buy in retrospect or in closer examination in the moment, it's clear that he doesn't relish carnage the way we are told Arthur does or later see that Arthur does.