Case ID: ga-app_4/html/0845-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1299.
    Veasy v. The State.
    Accusation of carrying concealed weapon, from city court of Sparta — Judge Little. June 26, 1908.
    Submitted October 6,
    Decided October 12, 1908.
    
      William N. Maltbie, for plaintiff in error.
    
      R. W. Moore, solicitor, contra.
   Powell, J.

1. A demurrer to a plea of former jeopardy, filed in a prosecution for carrying a concealed pistol, is properly sustained when the plea sets up the former conviction of the defendant 'for carrying the pistol to a church, though it is alleged that both transactions were one and the same. As a matter of law, the two transactions were not the' same. In legal contemplation, a person who carries a concealed pistol to a church commits two offenses, and neither is inclusive of the other. Blair v. State, 81 Ga. 629 (7 S. E. 855) ; McIntosh v. State, 116 Ga. 543 (42 S. E. 793).

2. The evidence is sufficient to support the verdict. Judgment affirmed.