Johnson v. State

HARALSON, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of a violation of § 174(a), Title 14, Code of Alabama, 1940, Recompiled 1958, and sentenced to imprisonment for two years in the penitentiary. Subsection (a) of § 174, supra, reads as follows:

“No person who has been convicted in this state or elsewhere of committing or attempting to commit a crime of violence shall own a pistol or have one in his possession or under his control.”

By stipulation between the appellant and the State it was admitted that appellant had heretofore been convicted of murder and served a part of his sentence…