Case Name: Dan Ballard v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1914-04-08
Citations: 74 Tex. Crim. 110
Docket Number: No. 3086
Parties: Dan Ballard v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 74
Pages: 110–111

Head Matter:
Dan Ballard v. The State.
No. 3086.
Decided April 8, 1914.
Rehearing denied May 6, 1914.
1. —Carrying Pistol—Recognizance—Reinstatement.
Where the appeal was dismissed for want of a sufficient recognizance, hut thereafter a proper recognizance was filed, the appeal is reinstated.
2. —Same—Imminent Danger—Exceptions.
The fact that adulterous relations existed between defendant’s wife and another would not justify the defendant in hunting up said party and demanding an explanation to carry a pistol on and about his person, nor would the fact that this party in another county had made threats to kill defendant under certain conditions authorize defendant to arm himself and go to such county in search of him.
3. —Same—Traveler.
Where, upon trial of unlawfully carrying a pistol, the evidence showed that when defendant reached the end of his journey he retired, hut got up the next morning, put on his pistol and went in search of another party who had made threats against him, he was not authorized to carry a pistol as a traveler under the law.
Appeal from the County Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. Geo. F. Ingraham.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully carrying a pistol; penalty, a fine of $100.
The opinion states the case.
V. E. Middlebroolc, for appellant.
G. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
HABPEB, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and undertakes to prosecute an appeal to this court, but the recognizance is insufficient in law to confer jurisdiction on this court, therefore, the appeal is dismissed. Bigelow v. State, 36 Texas Crim. Rep., 402.
The appeal is dismissed.
Dismissed.