Gentry v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

—The appellant was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol in De Witt County on or about August 27, 1910, and his punishment fixed at twelve months confinement in the county jail.

The evidence in this case shows clearly that some time within a year prior to August 27, 1910, the appellant had a difficulty with a negro by the name of Laney Johnson, and that at that time Johnson pulled a gun on him; that on the evening of August 27, 1910, about five o’clock, Laney Johnson and a large number of other negroes—men and women—were in the back room and restaurant part, set apart…