39 La. Ann. 943 - State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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1. ““It may well be that the accused could not, under section 932, Rev. St., have been convicted for carrying a dangerous weapon, concealed on or about his person, because a pocketknife is not, eo nomine, a dangerous weapon ; but, it does not follow that, when under sec tion 794, Rev. St., the charge is that the accused did, with such a knife, feloniously inflict a severe wound, less than mayhem, such weapon may not be considered by the court and jury as a dangerous weapon, by the use made of it, within the meaning of that section, particularly as the description of the weapon is not, necessarily, required by the Statute, which merely mentions a dangerous weapon; i. e., any dangerous weapon, which may be so, by its use or in itself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Beebe