¶11. An accusation charging a violation of the act prohibiting the carrying of pistols without a license (Acts of 1910, p. 134), is fatally defective when it does not allege that the accused carried the pistol or revolver without first having taken out a license from the ordinary of the county of his residence.
¶22. In upholding the act of 1910 above referred to, its provisions are to be given a reasonable construction (Strickland v. State, 137 6-a. 12, 72 S. E. 260); and since, in imposing a reasonable regulation upon the carrying of pistols, the manual possession of a pistol at one’s home or place of business is not penalized by the statute, it is essential that an accusation charging a violation of this act shall affirmatively allege that the pistol was carried or was in the manual possession of the defendant “outside of his own home or place of business.”
¶33. For the reasons stated above, the court erred in overruling the demurrer to the accusation; and since the subsequent proceedings in the trial were nugatory, it would be profitless to consider-questions raised by exceptions to the admission of testimony, or to the charge of the court, not likely to recur upon a future investigation of the case.
¶4Judgment reversed.