Case ID: ga-app_9/html/0227-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. <1.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3221.
    Reynolds v. The State.
    Decided April 11, 1911.
    Accusation of pointing pistol at another; from city court of. Thomasville — Judge Hammond. January 11, 1911.
    
      Theodore Titus, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Roscoe Luke, solicitor, contra.
   Hill, C. <1.

1. A marshal, policeman, or other arresting officer, who intentionally points a pistol at one whom he is about to arrest, when the pointing is not done in self-defense, or in defense of habitation, property, or person, and is not done for the purpose of accomDlishing the arrest, is guilty of a violation of the Penal Code (1910), § 349.

2. No error of law is assigned, and the verdict is supported by the evidence.

Judgment affirmed.