State v. Davis

FOURNET, Justice.

The relator, Manuel Davis, having been charged in a Bill of Information with illegally carrying a weapon in that he “did wilfully and unlawfully and intentionally conceal on or about his person a dangerous weapon — to-wit a large knife,” moved to have this information quashed before going to trial, contending it is fatally defective because a knife is not made a dangerous weapon per se under the statute and the knife in thp information is not described as “one customarily used as a dangerous weapon.”

The illegal carrying of a weapon as pertinent here is defined in Section 1 of…