Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876: with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permanent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated Page 989, Image 1005 (1877) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

"§ 4809 (4136). Carrying Concealed Weapons. – In an indictment for carrying concealed weapons, it is sufficient to charge that the defendant “carried concealed about his person a pistol, or other description of fire-arms,” or “a bowie-knife, or other knife or instrument of the like kind or description,” without averring the want of a legal excuse on his part; and the excuse, if any, must be proved by the defendant, on the trial, to the satisfaction of the jury."

Full Text (Subscription Required): Gale

Wade Keyes, Fern M. Wood,  and John D. Roquemore, eds., The Code of Alabama, 1876: with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permenent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated (Montgomery, AL: Barrett & Brown, 1877), 989. Part Fifth—Of Crimes and Their Punishment; Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Title 3—Of the Proceedings in Criminal Cases, Chapter 7—Proceedings in the Circuit and City Courts, Article 3—Indictments; form and Contents of; Amendments, and Substitution when Lost or Destroyed. (Undated.)