Case ID: sw_160/html/0382-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

VINE v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 22, 1913.)
    Criminal Law (§ 829*) — Trial—Requested Instructions — ’Instructions Alreaihy Given.
    Where the charge in a criminal prosecution fairly presents the issues as raised by the evidence, it is not necessary for the court to give the special charges requested by the defendant.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. § 2011; Dec. Dig. § 829.*]
    Appeal from Fannin County Court; Rosser Thomas, Judge.
    Effie Vine was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   HARPER, J.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of the offense of unlawfully carrying a pistol.

The evidence would show that appellant had ordered a pistol, and delivered it to George Brigham, who had carried it to his (Brigham’s) house. On the night appellant was prosecuted for carrying the pistol he called at the home of Brigham and got the pistol. His home was about one-half or three-quarters of a mile northeast from Brigham’s residence. When he got the pistol he did not go directly home, but went to the schoolhouse and attending a speaking, and on his way home from the speaking shot the pistol. The evidence further shows that there was a direct route from Brigham’s to appellant’s home. It further shows that if he went the way he did a half mile he came to another road going to his home, but he did not take this road, but went another mile to the schoolhouse, and in returning home he was compelled to retrace his steps the full length of this mile. Under such circumstances, we thing the court’s charge as given fairly presented the issues as raised, and it was not necessary nor proper to give the special charges requested. Zollicoffer v. State, 43 S. W. 992; Cordova v. State, 50 Tex. Cr. R. 353, 97 S. W. 87.

The judgment is affirmed.