State v. Larkin

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted on *411a charge of carrying, concealed upon his person, a dangerous and deadly weapon. The testimony offered by the state tended to show, that the defendant, at the date of the alleged offence, had an unloaded pistol, which was apparently new and unused, in his overcoat pocket. The defendant, who testified on his own behalf, stated that he had that day bought the pistol, which was new, at the hardware store of one Fount Scott, not for the purpose of immediate use, but for the purpose of taking ■ it with him on a trip which he was to make the…