State v. Reams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for carrying concealed weapon, tried before Mclver, J., and a jury at September Term, 1897, of Nash Superior Court. The evidence showed that the defendant carried a pistol in. the upper breast pocket; that the pistol was 10 or 12 inches long and that part of the handle and barrel protruded from the top of the pocket.
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INDICTMENT for carrying concealed weapon, tried before Mclver, J., and a jury at September Term, 1897, of Nash Superior Court. The evidence showed that the defendant carried a pistol in. the upper breast pocket; that the pistol was 10 or 12 inches long and that part of the handle and barrel protruded from the top of the pocket. The Judge charged the jury, who returned a verdict of guilty, that if they found from the evidence that any part of the weapon was concealed they should return a verdict of guilty. The defendant appealed assigning as error the above recited in-strúction.
1Opinion of the Court
Faircloth, C. J.:
The Constitution, Article I, Section 24, says that, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.Nothing herein contained shall justify the practice of carrying con-' cealed weapons, or prevent the legislature from enacting-penal Statutes against said practice.” The legislature may then regulate the right to bear arms in a manner conducive to the public peace (State v. Speller, 865 N. C., 697) which it has done in Section 1005 of The Code.
The offence of carrying a concealed weapon about one’s-person and off his own premises consists in the guilty…
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