Richardson v. State

Raney, C. J.:

At a late term of Columbia Circuit Court the State attorney filed an information charging the plaintiff in error with the offense of having a weapon concealed about his person, under the act of February 12th, 1885, Chapter 3620 of the statutes, and upon a trial the jury rendered a verdict of guilty, whereupon the plaintiff in error moved for a new trial, and this having been overruled he was sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs.

The grounds of the motion for a new trial, as they appear in such motion, were : That the verdict was contrary to the evidence, and to the…