Huff v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for carrying a pistol, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $100.

The- evidence in this case, in substance, shows that appellant was arrested with a 38-caliber pistol in his hand on a public street. His defense was that his employer directed him to take his pistol, which was in the employer’s store, and leave it at another store in the same town so that the employer could get same the next day. While going along the street, in the general direction of the place where he was instructed to leave the pistol, holding the pistol in his hand, appellant was…