Case ID: sw_186/html/0201-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HOPKINS v. STATE.
    (No. 4067.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 10, 1916.)
    Cbimiiítal Law <&wkey;200 — Former Jeopardy-Identity of Offenses.
    Acquittal on a charge of murder does not bar prosecution for unlawfully carrying the pistol with which the murder was alleged to have been committed; the offenses being entirely separate and distinct.
    [Ed. Note. — Eor other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 347, 386-409; Dec. Dig. &wkey;> 200.]
    Appeal from Bexar County Court; Nelson Lytle, Judge.
    Mary Hopkins was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and she appeals. Affirmed.
    C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, P. J.

Appellant was convicted for unlawfully carrying a pistol and fined $100. No statement of facts nor bills of exceptions are in the record.

Appellant pleaded former jeopardy, in that she was acquitted of a charge of murder, with which she was charged while she carried the pistol with which she committed the killing. The two offenses are entirely separate and distinct, as has many times been held by this court. The court did not err in overruling her plea of former acquittal.

The judgment is affirmed.