Case Name: CROCKETT v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1918-10-23
Citations: 205 S.W. 987
Docket Number: No. 5107
Parties: CROCKETT v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 205
Pages: 987–988

Head Matter:
CROCKETT v. STATE.
(No. 5107.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 23, 1918.)
Weapons <§=»17(4) — Unlawful Carrying— Evidence.
Evidence in a prosecution for unlawfully carrying a pistol held not sufficient to sustain a conviction. ‘
Appeal from Jefferson County Court at Law; D. P. Wheat, Judge.
John Crockett was convicted for unlawfully carrying a pistol, and he appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, J.
This conviction was for unlawfully carrying a pistol. Appellant, while walking on the street in company with two girls, was found in possession of a pistol. He explained his possession of it with testimony that he had, some months before, taken it to a refinery at which he worked at the request of one of the guards, who was guarding the property, the guard stating that he wanted to buy it; that he left it at the refinery, the guard laying it away, where it remained until the day of the arrest, at which, time appellant was on his way home, taking the pistol with him, the guard having failed to buy it. The evidence shows that he was going directly home the nearest route. The Assistant Attorney General concedes the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction, and in this we agree with him. See Mangum v. State, 90 S. W. 31; Roberts v. State, 60 Tex. Cr. R. 112, 131 S. W. 321; Buckley v. State, 70 Tex. Cr. R. 550, 157 S. W. 765.
The judgment of the lower court is . reversed, and the cause remanded.