Court Opinion

ID: 4904541
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:54:32.099743+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:03.717018
License: Public Domain

White, J.
The assistant attorney general moves the court to dismiss this case for the want of a proper recognizance. The 3d requisite to the validity of a recognizance, as provided by our statute (Pase. Dig., Art. 2731), is “ that it appear by the recognizance that the defendant is accused of an offense against the laws of this state.” The original recognizance in this case states that the defendant “ is charged with the offense of carrying a gun on election day.” It is no offense simply to carry a gun on the day of an election ; the offense, as defined by statute, consists in carrying it “on any day of election, during the hours the polls are open, within the distance of one-half mile of any place of election.” 2 Pasc. Dig., Art. 6490. The amended recognizance was conditioned to be void, provided defendant was guilty of the act with which he was charged. See J. L. Harris v. The State, just decided by this court at this term, post p. 615.
The motion is sustained and the appeal is dismissed.

Dismissed.