Williams v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Conviction of carrying pistol without license; from city court of Madison—Judge Anderson. October 19, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtPottle, J.
1. The accused was convicted of having in his possession a pistol without a license, in violation of the act approved August 12, 1910 (Acts 1910, p. 134). He contends that his conviction is unsupported by evidence, because no witness testified that he saw the pistol, and the conviction rests solely upon testimony that the accused shot another person with a weapon which the witnesses testified they knew to be a pistol, from the sound that the explosion made. It is urged that this evidence is too inconclusive to authorize a conviction. It appears that the accused, and the person who was shot…
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