Smith v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted, in the Circuit Court of the county of Coffee, of the offense of carrying a pistol about his person, under the Act of 1870, c. 13. By the third section of that act, “persons who are on a journey out of their State or county,” are, among others, specially exempted from its operation. Upon the trial, it was shown that the *512plaintiff in error resided in the county of Warren, but within half a mile of the line of Coffee county, and that he was carrying the weapon while riding through the neighborhood in Coffee county, not exceeding a dozen miles from his home…