Court Opinion

ID: 9641715
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:38:55.230531+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:39.294284
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WOODLEY, Judge,
dissenting.
Three or four passengers riding in the car which appellant was driving “got out of the car staggering and falling and using abusive language and there was something wrong with them.”
There is nothing in the record to suggest that either of these passengers owned or was in control of the automobile appellant was operating while being pursued by the officers.
*593Proof that the accused carried a pistol in the glove compartment of his car warrants his conviction of carrying on or about his person a pistol. Hutspeth v. State, 158 Texas Cr. Rep. 188, 254 S.W. 2d 130; Franklin v. State, 147 Texas Cr. Rep. 636, 183 S.W. 2d 573; Spears v. State, 112 Texas Cr. Rep. 506, 17 S.W. 2d 809.
Proof of ownership of the car which appellant was driving was not essential to the state’s case.