Billingsley v. State

The plaintiff in error, referred to herein as defendant, was presented and convicted for carrying a pistol, and, in addition to the statutory fine of $50, was sentenced to the county workhouse for a period of thirty days.

Testimony was introduced to the effect that two officers, without a search warrant, went upon a woodland belonging to the defendant in search of a still, which they found. When the defendant saw the officers he ran, and, after getting off a piece, pulled out his pistol and fired at the officers. This testimony was excepted to, and the exception was properly overruled by the…