Case Name: Robert Emerson v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1916-11-29
Citations: 80 Tex. Crim. 354
Docket Number: No. 4295
Parties: Robert Emerson v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 80
Pages: 354–356

Head Matter:
Robert Emerson v. The State.
No. 4295
Decided November 29, 1916.
Rehearing December 21, 1916.
1.—Carrying1 Pistol—Sufficiency of the Evidence.
Where, upon trial of unlawfully carrying a pistol, the evidence was sufficient to sustain the conviction, there was no reversible error. Following Leonard v. State, 56 Texas Grim. Rep., 84, and other cases.
3.—Same—On or About Person—Definition of Offense.
Where the information alleged that the pistol was carried on and about the defendant’s person, and the evidence showed that the pistol was in the box of the seat, covered by the cushion in the buggy upon which the defendant sat and rode at the time, he was guilty of carrying on and about his person a pistol. Following Wagner v. State, 188 S. W. Rep., 1001, and other cases.
Appeal from the County Court of Nacogdoches. Tried below before the Hon. J. F. Perritte.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully carrying a pistol; penalty, a fine of one hundred dollars.
The opinion states the case.
8. M. Adams, for appellant.—Reviewed the cases cited in the opinion.
C. C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted for unlawfully carrying a pistol and assessed the lowest punishment.
The only question is as to the sufficiency of the testimony to sustain the conviction. We have read it carefully, and we think it is sufficient. (Leonard v. State, 56 Texas Crim. Rep., 84; Mayfield v. State, 75 Texas Crim. Rep., 103, 170 S. W. Rep., 308, and cases there cited.)
The iudgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
HARPER, Judge, absent.