Baker v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Kerr County; R. H. Burney, Judge. Will Baker was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPrendergast, J.
The defendant was indicted, under article 338 of the Penal Code of 1895, as amended by Acts 1905, p. 56, for unlawfully carrying a pistol on or about his person. He was not indicted, under article 340 of the Penal Code, for going into an assembly and having or carrying about his-person a pistol.
The evidence shows that there was a. dance at the residence of J. S. Hope, in Kerr county, some time in March or April, 1910; that the defendant, who lived about a mile- or mile and a half from Hope’s, took his family to the dance in a hack; that there was considerable drinking, and some of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Schroeder v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1906
- West v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1886
3Cited by3 opinions
- Hicks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912
- Hooper v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1911
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1914