Case ID: tex-crim_93/html/0592-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bob Walker v. The State.
    No. 7535.
    Decided March 7, 1923.
    Unlawfully Carrying Pistol — Sufficiency of the Evidence.
    •Where, upon, trial of unlawfully carrying a pistol, defendant- claimed that he was taking it home, when he was arrested, but it appeared that he departed from his course for another purpose, etc., and the evidence sustained the conviction, there is no reversible error.
    Appeal from the County Court of Young. Tried below before the Honorable.W- H. Reeves.
    Appeal from the conviction of unlawfully carrying a pistol; penalty, a fine of $100.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      No brief on file for appellant.
    
      R. G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for unlawfully carrying a pistol; punishment fixed at a fine of one hundred dollars.

From the State’s testimony it appears that appellant was carrying a pistol on the streets of Graham under circumstances which come within none of the exceptions embraced in the law forbidding one to carry a pistol on or about his person.

Appellant’s defense was that sometime prior to the date of the offense, he had loaned his pistol to one Tackett; that it had come into possession of the sheriff and that appellant had gotten it from the sheriff with the view of taking it home and was arrested while it was in his possession under these circumstances. From his testimony, however, it appears that he departed from his course for the purpose of going to another part of the town and attending a certain entertainment.

Without going into details, the appellant’s evidence is sufficient to show that he was carrying a pistol in violation of the law.

The record is before us without bills on exceptions.

The judgment must be afnrmed, and it is so ordered.

Affirmed.