Case Name: Joe Hancock v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1927-01-19
Citations: 106 Tex. Crim. 666
Docket Number: No. 10565
Parties: Joe Hancock v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 106
Pages: 666–669

Head Matter:
Joe Hancock v. The State.
No. 10565.
Delivered January 19, 1927.
Rehearing granted April 27, 1927.
The opinion states the case.
J. D. Willis and Joe W. Taylor of Waco, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robert M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction in County Court of McLennan County of unlawfully carrying a pistol, punishment fixed at a fine of $100.
The record contains no bills of exception or other complaint of the procedure had upon the trial of this case. The statement of facts shows that appellant was found in the town of Mart, in McLennan County, in a car in which he had a pistol. Appellant testified that at the time he was on his way to visit relatives in Freestone County. ' He introduced no other witness save himself. The jury are not compelled to accept statements made by one accused of crime. The facts seem to justify the verdict.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.