Woodroe v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and her punishment assessed at a fine of $25; hence this appeal.

Appellant claims that the court committed error in striking out her plea of former acquittal. Such plea of former acquittal set up the fact that appellant had previously been acquitted of an assault with intent to murder, and that was the very occasion when she had the pistol for which she is now being tried. That was no bar to this prosecution.

By the first bill of exceptions she questioned the action of the court in empaneling the jury and in refusing to…