State v. Boone.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against Riddick Boone, heard by Judge M. II. Justice and a jury, at April Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of Oates County. From a judgment of not guilty on a special verdict, tbe State appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The special verdict finds: “That within two years before finding the bill of indictment the defendant was U. S. mail carrier, bonded and sworn, from Adair to Topsy, in this State, and that on the day in question, while carrying the mail between said points the defendant bad a pistol, a deadly weapon, concealed on bis person, and after delivering the mail at Topsy be carried the pistol concealed from Topsy to' bis borne, one-half mile.”
The Constitution, Article I, Section 24, guaranteed to the defendant, as to all citizens, the right to bear arms. The Legislature, however, has the undoubted…
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