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Of Miscellaneous Offences, ch. 7, § 4, 1841 Ala. Acts 148–49 (Hale & Phelan 1841).

  • Year:
  • 1841
Category:

Carrying Weapons,

Jurisdiction:

State,

"CHAPTER SEVENTH.
Of Miscellaneous Offences...

    ...Section 4. Everyone who shall hereafter carry concealed about his person, a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, dirk or any other deadly weapon, pistol or any species of firearms, or air gun, unless such person shall be threatened with, or have good cause to apprehend an attack, or be travelling, or setting out on a journey, shall on conviction, be fined not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars: It shall devolve on the person setting up the excuse here allowed for carrying concealed weapons, to make it out by proof, to the satisfaction of the jury; but no excuse shall be sufficient to authorize the carrying of an air gun, bowie knife, or knife of the like kind or description."

Acts Passed at the Annual Session of the General Assembly, of the State of Alabama; Begun and Held in the City of Tuscaloosa, on the First Monday in November, 1841 (Tuscaloosa, AL: Hale & Phelan, 1841), 148-49. Chapter 7—Of Miscellaneous Offences, § 4. Passed November 1, 1841.

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