Case Name: TOLBERT v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1952-01-23
Citations: 246 S.W.2d 896
Docket Number: No. 25656
Parties: TOLBERT v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 246
Pages: 896–897

Head Matter:
TOLBERT v. STATE.
No. 25656.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 23, 1952.
Rehearing Denied March 12, 1952.
Mahlon L. Walters, Jefferson, for appellant.
George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Judge.
The offense is unlawfully carrying a pistol; the punishment, a fine of $100.00. Three State's witnesses testified that they saw appellant near the door of the cafe with a pistol in his hand.
Appellant testified, admitting that he had been at the cafe on the time in question, that he had had an argument with the proprietor over the nickelodian but denied that he had a pistol of any kind with him on that occasion.
Plaving testified, he thereby established his defensive issues.
The great majority of the bills of exception complain of the court's failure to charge that the pistol carried by appellant must have been proven to be one capable of being fired and one posssessed of all the component parts of a pistol.
Bill of exception No. 8 complains that he was limited in his argument of the above contention to the jury. We do not find such issue to have been raised by the evidence and therefore conclude that the trial court acted properly.
Finding no reversible error, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.