1877 — Alabama — Weapon Discharge

Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876: with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permenent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated 901 (1877)

Summary

Penalized using a firearm in a fight, prohibited discharging a firearm over a public road, and prohibited giving or selling pistols or Bowie knives to males under 18.

Statutory Text

§ 4228 (3671). Using fire arms while fighting in public place.—Any person who, while fighting in the streets of any city or town, or at a militia muster, or at any public place, whether public in itself, or made public at the time by an assemblage of persons, uses, or attempts to use, except in self-defense, any kind of fire arms, must,on conviction, be fined not less than two hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for not more than six months.

§ 4229 (3694). Shooting and horse-racing on public road.—Any person who discharges a gun, or any other kind of firearms, along or across any public road, or engages in a horse race on any public road, must, on conviction, be fined not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars.

§ 4230 (3751). Selling, giving, or lending, pistol or bowie knife, or like knife, to boy under eighteen.—Any person who sells, gives, or lends, to any boy under eighteen years of age, any pistol, or bowie knife, or other knife of like kind or description, must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars.

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Title 1877 — Alabama — Weapon Discharge
Conduct Transfer & Sale, Use
Jurisdiction AL
Date 1877