Love v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Robertson. Tried below before Hon. O. D. Cannon, County Judge. This appeal is from a judgment of conviction under an indictment for unlawfully carrying a pistol, the punishment having been assessed by the court, without a jury, at a fine of $25. Defendant was deputy postmaster for C. M. Norton, who was postmaster and justice of the peace at Calvert, and he testified, that Norton had advised him to carry a pistol, which he had always done since…
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Appeal from the County Court of Robertson. Tried below before Hon. O. D. Cannon, County Judge. This appeal is from a judgment of conviction under an indictment for unlawfully carrying a pistol, the punishment having been assessed by the court, without a jury, at a fine of $25. Defendant was deputy postmaster for C. M. Norton, who was postmaster and justice of the peace at Calvert, and he testified, that Norton had advised him to carry a pistol, which he had always done since he had been deputy postmaster. On the occasion in question, which was Christmas Eve, he had discharged his pistol at a…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was indicted for unlawfully carrying a pistol, and convicted and fined in the sum of $25, from which judgment he appeals. It was admitted that appellant, on Christmas Eve, in the city of Calvert, was carrying and discharged a pistol on the public street. The defense is, that he was deputy postmaster at Calvert, and as such it was his duty to receive the mails; that witness receives all mails at the postoffice, where they are delivered to him; that on the day in question he had been to various places in the town, and into the country, and had carried this pistol,…
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