70 Ky. 392 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1870
delivered the opinion op the court.
Cutsinger undertook, for the accommodation of Hickerson, to convey to Cook a pistol, of which the latter was the purchaser. He so carried the same about his person as to conceal it from the public view. He was indicted therefor under the provisions of the “ act to prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons,” and upon trial was convicted and fined fifty dollars. He complains that the circuit court erred to his prejudice in refusing to instruct the jury, in effect, that if he was carrying the pistol for the purpose of delivering it to Cook, and not with the intention of using it as a weapon, they should find him not guilty. The language of the statute is
We perceive no available error in the action of the court below; wherefore its judgment must be affirmed.