State v. Pye

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case on relator’s showing that he was convicted under LSA-R.S. 14:95 and sentenced to serve six months in the Parish prison on a bill of information charging him with having “concealed on his person a certain dangerous weapon, to-wit, pocket knife” — in direct conflict with the jurisprudence of this State. State v. Davis, 214 La. 885, 39 So.2d 164; State v. Nelson, 38 La.Ann. 942, 58 Am.Rep. 202; see, also, State v. Scott, 39 La.Ann. 943, 3 So. 83. In the Davis case we said: “The illegal carrying of a weapon as pertinent here is defined in…