Coker v. State

This was a conviction of carrying a pistol without having procured a license so to do. The accused was a single man, and had charge of his mother’s plantation, where both she and he resided. He had the pistol on this plantation, and not elsewhere, so far as appears from the evidence. The statute makes it penal for any one “to carry around with him on his person, or to have in his manual possession outside of his own home or place of business,” a pistol or revolver, without first obtaining a license- from the ordinary, unless he be within one of the excepted classes specified in the statute.…