Case Name: The State v. G. W. Carter
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1872
Citations: 36 Tex. 89
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. G. W. Carter.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 36
Pages: 89–90

Head Matter:
The State v. G. W. Carter.
Indictment for carrying concealed weapons, laying time and place, charged, that the defendant “ did have about his person a certain pistol, known “ as a derringer, said pistol being then and there a weapon ; and the “ Said C. not being then and there an officer, either civil or military, in “ the discharge of his duties; against the peace ; ” etc. The defendant excepted to the indictment, because it did not charge that the said defendant did “ carry ” the weapon mentioned in said indictment. The court below sustained this exception ; which ruling is held to be error. To have a weapon upon the person is, in contemplation of law, to carry it.
Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. John G. Scott.
There is no occasion for a statement of the case.
Wm. Alexander, Attorney-General, for the State.
No brief for the appellee has reached the hands of the reporter.

Opinion:
Walker, J.
This case involves the same principle decided in Nos. 639, etc. The third exception to the indictment is not well taken. To have upon the person is to carry a weapon in contemplation of the law. The judgment of the District Court is reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.