Killet v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for misdemeanor, in Chattooga Superior Court. Tried before Judge Dawson A. Walker, at September Term, 1860. John Killet was indicted for carrying a pistol, in violation of the statute of this State* against carrying weapons concealed.
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Indictment for misdemeanor, in Chattooga Superior Court. Tried before Judge Dawson A. Walker, at September Term, 1860. John Killet was indicted for carrying a pistol, in violation of the statute of this State* against carrying weapons concealed. The testimony adduced on the trial showed that on the 26th day of December, 1859, and during Christmas holidays, the defendant with quite a number of other persons, were assembled at the house of a Mr. McCollum, in Chattooga county, and that the defendant had a single-barreled pistol, which he was frequently shooting—that all the persons present…
1Opinion of the Court
*294 By the Court
Jenkins, J.,
delivering the opinion.
The question upon which this ease turns, as stated in the second exception, was decided after careful consideration at our recent sitting in Macon.
The statute under which this indictment was framed, like all other statutes, .must receive a reasonable construction. We are not satisfied with the construction given to it in the charge of the Court below, and have embodied our own in the judgment of reversal.
Judgment reversed.
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