Marrs v. Commonwealth

. Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

Grover C. Marrs was convicted of carrying a concealed and deadly weapon upon or about his person, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $100.00, at imprisonment in the county jail for forty days, and in addition the “working statute” was applied. The court also rendered judgment for this and disfranchised him for two years.

It is insisted that the evidence was inadmissible.

The chief of police of Pikeville testified that he saw the defendant on the streets, reeling drunk, and arrested him for that offense; that he searched him and found a…