Hall v. State

OPINION

DICE, Special Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted under Art. 483, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., of unlawfully carrying a pistol and his punishment assessed at a fine of $150.

Trial was to the Court without a jury.

We reverse the judgment of conviction on appellant’s first ground of error wherein he insists that the pistol in question was seized from his motor vehicle as the result of an illegal arrest and that for such reason his conviction cannot stand.

Briefly, the record shows that on the day in question as Officer Bolling was driving his squad car east on Throckmor-ton Street in the city of…