Mason Brayman, Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois 176 (1845)
Abstract
Criminal Jurisprudence, § 139: Prohibited the carrying of "any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 3 months.
Summary
This law makes it a crime to carry burglary tools or be in a building intending to steal, punishable as a vagrant with up to two years in prison. Carrying a weapon with intent to assault can result in a fine up to $100 or up to three months' imprisonment.
Law Text
Sec. 139. If any person shall be found, having upon him or her, any pick-lock, crow, key, bit or other instrument or tool, with intent feloniously to break and enter into any dwelling house, store, warehouse, shop or other building containing valuable property, or shall be found in any of the aforesaid buildings with intent to steal any goods and chattels, every such person so offending, shall, on conviction, be deemed a vagrant, and punished by confinement in the penitentiary, for any term not exceeding two years. And if any person shall have upon him any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person, every such person, on conviction, shall be fined, in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned, not exceeding three months.
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Categories
CARRY - INTENT TO COMMIT CRIME