Alabama
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The Alabama Community serves as a repository for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Alabama. This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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Item Open Access Offenses Against Public Safety, Chapter 6, § 420(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited carrying concealed any brass knuckles, slung-shot, or other weapon of like kind, or carries a rifle, shot gun walking cane. Violators fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned, or put to hard labor not exceeding sixty days.Item Open Access 1909 Ala. Laws 258, no. 215, § 4(General Publisher, 1909)Defendants shall be given an opportunity to provide evidence for mitigation of a fine or justification for the offense of carrying.Item Open Access 1909 Ala. Laws 258, no. 215, § 2(General Publisher, 1909)Prohibited the carry of a pistol on a property not owned or under his control.Item Open Access Wade Keyes (Editor), Code of Alabama 1876 882 (1877), ch. 3, § 4109(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the carrying of a Bowie knife, pistol, or air gun, or any other weapon of “like kind or description,” unless threatened with or having good cause to fear an attack or while traveling or setting out on a journey. Punishable by a fine of $50-300 and imprisonment or hard labor for no more than 6 months.Item Open Access 1876-77 Ala. Code 882, § 4109(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the carrying of a Bowie knife, pistol, or air gun, or any other weapon of “like kind or description,” unless threatened with or having good cause to fear an attack or while traveling or setting out on a journey. Punishable by a fine of $50-300 and imprisonment or hard labor for no more than 6 months.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 883 (1876), ch. 3, § 4111 (Act of Aug. 5, 1868, at 1)(General Publisher, 1868)Prohibited the carrying of any rifle or “shot -gun walking cane.” Punishable by fine of $500-1000 and imprisonment of no less than 2 years.Item Open Access Clement Comer Clay, Digest of the Laws of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of The General Assembly, in February, 1843. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama Page 416 § 31(General Publisher, 1843)Prohibited assault and battery of another with a cowhide, stick, or whip while in possession of a pistol or other deadly weapon with the intent to intimidate another to prevent the person from defending himself. Violators are imprisoned not less than two nor more than twenty years.Item Open Access 1841 Ala. Acts 148 - 49, Of Miscellaneous Offences, ch. 7, § 4(General Publisher, 1841)Prohibited the concealed carrying of “a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, dirk or any other deadly weapon, pistol or any species of firearms, or air gun,” unless the person is threatened with an attack or is traveling or “setting out on a journey.” Punished by a fine of $50-100.Item Open Access 1839 Ala. Acts 67, § 1(General Publisher, 1839)Prohibited the concealed carrying of “any species of firearms, or any bowie knife, Arkansas toothpick, or any other knife of the like kind, dirk, or any other deadly weapon.” Punished by a fine of $50-100 and imprisonment not to exceed 3 months.