Cheney v. State

Sid Cheney was convicted of a violation of the act approved August 12, 1910 (Acts 1910, p. 134), entitled: “An act to prohibit any person from having or carrying about his person, in any county in the State of Georgia, any pistol or revolver without first having obtained a license from the ordinary of the county of said State, in which the party resides,” etc. On his trial the evidence clearly showed — indeed, it was not. denied — that he had a pistol in his manual possession on the public road of the county in which he was indicted, and that he had not the license required by the statute.…