Nunn v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
This was a bill of indictment, founded upon a presentment of a grand jury at Sumpter Superior Court, againstthe plaintiff in error, for a high, misdemeanor, for having and keeping about his person, and elsewhere, a pistol, the same not being such a pistol as is known and used as a horseman’s pistol, under an act of the General Assembly of the Stale of Georgia, entitled “ An Act to guard and protect the citizens of this State against i'he unwarrantable and too prevalent use…
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This was a bill of indictment, founded upon a presentment of a grand jury at Sumpter Superior Court, againstthe plaintiff in error, for a high, misdemeanor, for having and keeping about his person, and elsewhere, a pistol, the same not being such a pistol as is known and used as a horseman’s pistol, under an act of the General Assembly of the Stale of Georgia, entitled “ An Act to guard and protect the citizens of this State against i'he unwarrantable and too prevalent use of deadly weapons,” assented to on the 25th December, 1837 ; upon which bill was endorsed, by the solicitor-general, that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, Judge.
This was an indictment for a high misdemeanor, founded upon the presentment of a grand jury in Sumpter Superior Court.
At May term, 1846, the defendant, being arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and moved to quash the proceeding on the following grounds, to wit: 1st and 2d. Because the act of 1837, under which he was prosecuted, was contrary to the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Georgia.
3d. Because the indictment does not show and charge that the defendant (below) carried the pistols secretly, with the having and keeping of which he is charged in…
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