Case Name: G. E. Anderson v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1926-03-31
Citations: 104 Tex. Crim. 291
Docket Number: 10059
Parties: G. E. Anderson v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 104
Pages: 291–293

Head Matter:
G. E. Anderson v. The State.
10059.
Delivered March 31, 1926.
Rehearing granted State, May 12, 1926.
The opinion states the case.
G. A. Crane of Dallas, for appellant.
Gossett Greer, Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County, and Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robert M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
BERRY, Judge.
The offense is unlawfully carrying a pistol, and the punishment is a fine of $100.
The state's testimony shows that appellant was seen with a pistol about four miles from Seagoville, Dallas County, Texas, on the Dallas public road. Tlje appellant did not deny having the pistol on the occasion in question but offered proof to the effect that he had loaned the pistol to a boy by the name of Horne, who lived down below Seagoville, and at the time he was seen with the pistol, he had been down to this party's house and had got the pistol and was taking the same back home with him. The uncontradicted testimony of the appellant and his father was to the effect that he had loaned this pistol to this friend and that he had gone for the pistol on the occasion of his arrest and that he had procured it from his friend Who had borrowed it and was returning home with it and that he stopped to fix one of the lights on his car, which was out of order, and was apprehended with pistol at this time.
Appellant requested the court to charge the jury to the effect that he had a lawful right to go to the home of this friend who had borrowed this pistol and to take the pistol home with him. The court refused to so instruct the jury and nowhere in his main charge did he instruct the jury that under the theory of the case thus presented by the evidence, carrying the pistol would be no violation of the law. We think this charge should have been given and the refusal of the court to give it was error. It presented in apt language the affirmative defense offered by the appellant, and this defense was nowhere submitted by the court in his main charge.
For the refusal to give this special charge the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.
Morrow, Presiding Judge, absent.