Coffee v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted for carrying a pistol, other than an army or navy pistol, concealed about his person, in the streets of Memphis. The Court sentenced him to confinement in the county workhouse for sixty days and fined him fifty dollars.

The defendant appealed in error.

The bill of 'exceptions shows that the defendant was found on the street with a pistol concealed about his person, as charged, and that the pistol *246was not such as is used in the army or navy of the United States. It further appears that the defendant is a peaceable man, not in the habit of…