State v. Wilforth
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Gape Girardeau Circuit Court. — Hon. E. L. Hawkins, Judge. The law prohibiting the wearing of concealed weapons, is a police regulation for the protection of society and not an infringement of the constitutional right to bear arms. It does not prohibit the right to bear arms, but provides that they shall not be worn in a manner dangerous to the welfare of society. Nunn v. State, 1 Kelly (G-a.) 243; State v. Jumel, 13 La.
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Appeal from Gape Girardeau Circuit Court. — Hon. E. L. Hawkins, Judge. The law prohibiting the wearing of concealed weapons, is a police regulation for the protection of society and not an infringement of the constitutional right to bear arms. It does not prohibit the right to bear arms, but provides that they shall not be worn in a manner dangerous to the welfare of society. Nunn v. State, 1 Kelly (G-a.) 243; State v. Jumel, 13 La. Ann. 399; Owen v. State, 31 Ala. 387; State v. Buzzard, 4 Ark. 18; State v. Mitchell, 3 Blackf. (Ind.) 229.
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
Defendant was indicted at the May term, 1877, of the circuit court of Gape G-irardeau county for going into a church house in said county where people were assembled for literary purposes, viz : for the purposes of a school exhibition, the said defendant having about his person fire-arms, the said defendant not being a person whose duty it is to bear arms in the discharge of duties i mposed upon him by law. On the trial defendant was convicted and fined $10, and the cause is here on his appeal. There being neither assignment of errors nor brief on the part of defendant, we are driven to the…
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