Case ID: ga-app_25/html/0487-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

11575.
    Stanford v. The State.
    Decided July 14, 1920.
    Accusation of carrying pistol; from city court of Macon — Judge G-uerry, April 20, 1920.
   Broyles, C. J.

The evidence demanded the conviction of the defendant and the court did not err in overruling his motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.

The accusation charged the carrying of a pistol concealed, and the carrying of a pistol without having obtained a license; and there was a general verdict of guilty. The sole witness was a police officer, who testified, that he came up behind the defendant and collared him when the defendant and others were stooping down in a circle at a street corner, playing craps, and the defendant said “ Oh, Lordy,” and ran his hand in his left coat-pocket; the witness told him to take his hands out of his pockets, and he withdrew his hands, “and in his'hand was a .38-caliber pistol,” which he threw away from him; when he took his hand out of his pocket ,the witness saw the pistol.

John R. Cooper, W. O. Cooper Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Will Gunn, solicitor, contra.