Jackson v. State

The purpose of the General Assembly in the passage of the act of 1910, supra, was to prevent the having or carrying of pistols or revolvers by any person (other than those excepted in the act) outside of his own home or place of business. But in using the words “to have or carry about his person” there is necessarily involved the idea that the inhibited condition shall have some degree of permanence, with a definite intent to convey the pistol from one place to another, and the act was never intended to reach a case where the having or carrying of the weapon was for the mere purpose of…