7 N.M. 228 | N.M. | 1893
This prosecution was commenced in a justice’s court of Lincoln county upon a criminal complaint charging that “William H. Guyse did, on the fourteenth day of July, A. D. 1892, carry a deadly weapon to wit: a pistol, concealed about his person, within the settlements of said territory and county; that such carrying of said deadly weapon was not within the residence of the said William H. Guyse, or on his landed estate, or in the lawful defense of his person, family, or property; and that such carrying of said deadly weapon was not done by legal authority, — all of which is contrary to the form of the statute, ’’etc. Upon a trial had before a justice of the peace of Lincoln county on July 15, 1892, defendant was convicted, and fined $50 and costs of prosecution. An appeal was taken to the district court, where a jury trial was had, resulting in a verdict of guilty. From the judgment entered upon that verdict the defendant has brought the cause to this court for review.