Wyler v. Schindler

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a person who possesses an otherwise proscribed weapon is not guilty of unlawful possession if he took the weapon from an assailant in the course of a fight
• a suddenly discovered weapon or one taken from an assailant would not constitute unlawful possession
• justification is defense to otherwise unlawful use of weapon, but not to illegal possession

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).