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· 10/17/1893

State ex rel. Shannon v. Reynolds

Citations

  • 13 Mont. 423
  • 34 P. 613
  • 1893 Mont. LEXIS 59

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that physical possession or ownership of the weapon is not necessary, and mere access to a weapon can establish guilt
  • stating that possession may be “individual or joint, actual or constructive,” but “[p]roof of control or dominion,” through self or instrumentality of another, “is essential”
  • “[p]ossession * * * may be individual or joint” and “control or dominion may be achieved through the instrumentality of another”

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Judges: Harwood, Witt

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