Lomax v. State

DAVIDSOH, Judge.

The information in this case charged" that defendant “did then and there go into a ballroom and social party, and did then and there, unlawfully, have and carry about his person a pistol, against the peace and dignity of the State.”

Motion was made to quash this information because it failed to allege that people were assembled in said ballroom, and at said social party. Motion in arrest of judgment was also filed upon the same ground. These seem to have been overruled, and the court, in its charge, instructed the jury: First, if they believed beyond a reasonable doubt that the…