388 So. 2d 259 - McDaniels v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “[j]udicial notice may be taken of matters that are commonly known, but may not be used to dispense with proof of essential facts that are not judicially cognizable”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cordova v. State · Richardson v. State

2. “flatly prohibits a shotgun when the barrel or barrels are less that 18 inches regardless of the overall length of the gun. Then to prevent the cutting down of the other end of the gun, namely the stock and thus enabling its concealment on the person, it prohibits any modified or altered shotgun having an overall length of less than 26 inches. We think the learned trial judge clearly understood this when he said, in replying to defense counsel’s argument that any shotgun manufactured as a shotgun with no alterations but with a barrel less than 18 inches long was not prohibited by the statute “but when you get into modifying it and changing it around then the statute refers to the overall length of it. So you can have a short barreled ... you can saw off a shotgun to 6 inches as long as you put a long stock on it? It’s not an illegal shotgun? No way”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Graham