Campbell v. State

Willson, Judge.

When defendant was seen with the pistol he was at the house of one Jennings. He was temporarily residing at Jennings’s, and for the time being that was his home and his own premises. His permanent residence was in another county. When he left Jennings’s to return to his permanent home he carried the pistol with him. These facts do not constitute the offense of unlawfully carrying a pistol upon the person. He had the right to have and carry the pistol at Jennings’s house, because he was upon his own premises within contemplation of the law. He had the right to take the pistol to…