Cutsinger v. Commonwealth

JUDGE LINDSAY

delivered the opinion op the court.

Cutsinger undertook, for the accommodation of Hickerson, to convey to Cook a pistol, of which the latter was the purchaser. He so carried the same about his person as to conceal it from the public view. He was indicted therefor under the provisions of the “ act to prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons,” and upon trial was convicted and fined fifty dollars. He complains that the circuit court erred to his prejudice in refusing to instruct the jury, in effect, that if he was carrying the pistol for the purpose of delivering it to Cook,…