State v. Barnes

FIRST WARRANT — ASSAULT CASE.

Margáret Matthews, mother of the children' Linda, Dorothy and Joanne Matthews named in the second warrant, testified as a witness for the State that on 18 May 1959 in the yard of her home the defendant, C. S. Barnes, Jr., pointed a gun at her.

The word gun is a generic term and includes pistol. According to Webster’s New International Dictionary,' 2d. Ed., the. word “gun”, is defined, “6. A revolver or pistol. Orig., Western U. S.” In common usage the words' ) “pistol” and “gun” are used interchangeably. Muse v. Interstate Life & Accident Co., 45 Ga. App. 839, 166…