Case ID: tenn_71/html/0575-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Turney, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Westley Patterson v. The State.
    ObimtNAXi Law. Brass Kuueks. Brass knueks is used in the Statute as the name of a weapon, without reference to the metal of which it is made.
    erom Humphreys.
    Plaintiff in error was indicted in the Circuit Court of Humphreys county for unlawfully carrying brass knueks. The proof showed that the knueks were not brass, but were made of lead or pewter. He was convicted and appealed. Jo. C. Stark, J.
    T. L. Lanier for Patterson.
    John Frizzell for the State.
   Turney, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The charge of the Circuit Judge is correct. The term “ Brass Knueks,” as used in the statute, embraces all weapons made after the manner of that described in the record. It is called “Brass Knueks” because originally (as is now frequently done), they were made of brass. “Brass Knueks” is used as the name of the weapon, without reference to the metal of which that weapon is made. It is the weapon and not the metal which is condemned by the law.

Affirm the judgment.