State v. . Terry
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Concealed Weapons. Indictment for carrying a concealed weapon, tried before Clark, Judge, and a jury, at August Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of Johnston county.
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Concealed Weapons. Indictment for carrying a concealed weapon, tried before Clark, Judge, and a jury, at August Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of Johnston county. The evidence was, that the defendant was hired by the prosecutor, for a certain purpose, namely, to tend and cultivate the lands of the prosecutor; that the defendant slept and lived at his father’s bouse, about a mile distant front the residence of the prosecutor; that the defendant, on the day in question, was in a field of the proscutor, engaged in work which he had been employed to do by the prosecutor; that on the…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
(after stating the facts). The ease falls clearly within the inhibition of the statute. The statute forbids any person from carryiug concealed weapons, except when on his own premises: The word “ premises” here is evidently used as synonymous with land, for the statute proceeds to declare, if any one not being on his own lands, shall have about his person any such deadly weapon, such possession shall be prima fade evidence of the concealment thereof, that is, one may carry a weapon concealed about his person, while on his own land, but when he goes off* his own upon that of another, and is…
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