Couch v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Chief Justice.

Doyle Couch was convicted of feloni-ously carrying concealed upon 'his person a deadly weapon — -a pistol — and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years. He urges two grounds for reversal: (a) The Commonwealth failed to prove the pistol he was carrying was a deadly weapon; (b) two of the jurors were related to two of the prosecuting witnesses.

The Commonwealth proved appellant had concealed in the left pocket of his trousers a .38 caliber pistol and it could not be seen until he pulled it from his pocket when he requested a police officer…