The People v. Davies

John Davies, plaintiff in error, was convicted in the municipal court of Chicago of unlawfully, willfully and wrongfully changing, altering and removing the manufacturer’s number on a .45-caliber Colt automatic pistol and was sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Correction for one year and to pay a fine of $100 and costs. He sued out this writ of error to review that judgment, and contends that section 2a of “An act revising the law relating to deadly weapons,” as amended by the act of June 29, 1931, (Smith’s Stat. 1931, chap. 38, par. 153a,) is unconstitutional, and that the weapon from…