Cunningham v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Erom the Circuit Court of Shelby. Tried before the Hon. S. IT. Sprott. No counsel appeared in this court for the appellant, as far as the record and the dockets show.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— The statute provides, that “ any person who carries concealed about his person . . a pistol,” &c., “must be fined on conviction,” &c. — Code of 1876, § 4109, as amended by act approved February 19th, 1881. — Sess. Acts, 38. The present case requires us to construe the phrase, “ concealed about This person.” The testimony on which the conviction was had, showed that, “in the year 1882, the defendant was riding on one of the roads in said county, on horseback, and that he carried on the horse a pair of saddle-bags, and that in the saddle-bags he carried a pistol.” The court, at the written…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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