Case Name: F. L. Lewallen v. The State
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1923-09
Citations: 148 Tenn. 326
Docket Number: 
Parties: F. L. Lewallen v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 148
Pages: 326–327

Head Matter:
F. L. Lewallen v. The State.
(Knoxville.
September Term, 1923.)
1. WEAPONS. Taking and. presenting pistol held to sustain conviction for carrying.
Where defendant, when caught operating a still, reached over a nearby log, secured a pistol, and presented it in a threatening manner, held, that there was a sufficient carrying of a pistol for the purpose of being armed to sustain a conviction. (Post. p. 327.)
Case cited and approved: Page v. State, 50 Tenn., 199.
2. WEAPONS. Instruction that ownership of pistol had nothing to do with guilt in carrying it held proper.
In a prosecution for unlawfully carrying a pistol, an instruction that the ownership of the pistol had nothing to do with defendant’s guilt held proper. (Post, p. 327.)
PROM CAMPBELL.
Error to tbe Circuit Court of Campbell County. — Hon. Xen Hicks, Judge.
H. B. Brown, for F. L. Lewallen.
Wm. H. Swiggart, Jr., Assistant Attorney-General, for tbe State.
As to what manner of carrying of weapon violates statute against carrying concealed weapons, see note in 23 L. R. A. (N. S.), 173.

Opinion:
Me. Justice Chambliss
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This was a conviction under an indictment for unlawfully carrying a pistol. It appears that an officer came upon the defendant while operating a still, and the defendant reached over to a nearby log and secured a pistol and presented it in a threatening manner to the officer. This was a carrying of a. pistol for the purpose of being armed and brings the case within the statute. Page v. State, 3 Heisk., 199, note.
It is assigned as error that the judge in his charge instructed the jury that the ownership of the pistol had nothing to do with the question , of the defendant's guilt. There was no error in this instruction, as the question of ownership has no bearing.
The j udgment below is affirmed.