State v. Jarrell

Poffenbarger, Judge:

Sufficiency of the indictment on which the plaintiff in error was convicted of the carrying of a pistol, in violation of the statute, is denied, on the theory that it charges several offenses in a single count; the averment being that the prisoner unlawfully carried ‘ ‘ certain revolvers and other pistols, dirks, bowie knives, slungshots, billies, metalic and other false knuckles and other dangerous and deadly weapons of like kind and character,” without a state license therefor as required by law.

Though the practice illustrated here may be a departure from that anciently…