Smith (Michael) Vs. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “almost, if not every one of the States of this Union have [a prohibition on the carrying of deadly weapons] upon their statute books,” and lambasting claims of a right to carry such weapons as “little short of ridiculous”
• observing that “almost, if not every one of the States of this Union have [a prohibition on the carry­ ing of deadly weapons] upon their statute books,” and lambasting claims of a right to carry such weapons as “little short of ridiculous”
• categorizing pistols, dirks, daggers, slungshots, swordcanes, spears, brass-knuckles and bowie knives as \wicked devices of modern craft\
• “The terms dirks, daggers, slungshots, sword-canes, brass- knuckles and bowie knives, belong to no military vocabulary.”
• “The word ‘arms’ . . . refers to the arms of a militiaman or soldier, and the word is used in its military sense.”
• “The terms dirks, daggers, slungshots, sword-canes, brass-knuckles and bowie knives, belong to no military vocabulary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).