1853 — California — Sentence Enhancement

S. Garfielde & F. A. Snyder, Compiled Laws of the State of California: Containing All the Acts of the Legislature of a Public and General Nature, Now in Force, Passed at the Sessions of 1850-51-52-53. To Which are Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutions of the United States and of California, the Treaty of Queretaro, and the Naturalization Laws of the United States 663-64 (1853)

Summary

If one was caught carrying a weapon with intent to harm another, they would be fined.

Statutory Text

SEC. 127. If any person shall be found having upon him or her any picklock, crow, key, bitt, or other instrument or tool, with intent feloniously to break and enter into any dwelling house, store, shop, warehouse, or other building containing valuable property, or shall be found in any of the aforesaid buildings with intent to steal any money, goods, and chattels, every person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than two years; and if any person shall have upon him any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any per son, every such person, on conviction, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned in the county jail not more than three months.

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Title 1853 — California — Sentence Enhancement
Instrument Firearms
Jurisdiction CA
Date 1853