State v. Bowdry

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the legislature “intended to place the onus on the person to produce the permit, since he, rather than the State, has personal knowledge regarding the existence of a permit if one does exist”
• stating a defendant may rely on the state’s case for substantial evidence of the 16 existence of a valid permit
• regarding the issue of a permit to carry a concealed weapon
• “[W]e conclude that the General Assembly did not intend to make the absence of a permit an element of the offense.”
• state not required to prove that defendant did not have a permit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).