Harris v. State

1. On the trial of one charged with a violation of the act approved August 12, 1910 (Acts of 1910, p. 134), which prohibits the carrying of a pistol without having obtained the prescribed license, the State makes a prima facie case, authorizing conviction, on proof that the accused carried a pistol about his person, and proof of the necessary jurisdictional facts, when it does not appear from any of the testimony introduced that he was at his home or at his place of business when he was carrying the pistol. If it can be inferred from the testimony adduced for the prosecution that the…