Sykes v. City of Crystal Springs

Appellant, Frank Sykes, was convicted in the municipal or mayor’s court of the City of Crystal Springs, and on appeal by trial de novo in the Circuit Court of Copiah County, of exhibiting a deadly weapon in the presence of three or more persons in a rude, angry and threatening manner not in necessary self-defense, under Code of 1942, Sec. 2086. That statute provides:

“If any such person, having or carrying any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon, or other weapon the carrying of which concealed is prohibited, shall, in the presence of three or more persons, exhibit the…