State v. Merico

Williams, Judge:

Defendant was convicted of carrying a pistol in violation of Sec. 7, Ch. 148, Code 1913, and sentenced to confinement in the county jail for six months and adjudged to pay a fine of fifty dollars; and he brings error.

His first assignment is that the court erred in not quashing the indictment. He claims it charged him with more than one offense in a single count. Following the language of the statute defining the offense, the indictment charges that he “did unlawfully carry about his person a revolver and other pistol, a dirk, bowie knife, a razor, a slug shot, a billy, 'a *315metal…