Segars v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted of carrying a concealed weapon — a pistol. Only one witness was introduced and examined by the prosecution, and he was impeached by proof of contradictory statements. The testimony of the other witnesses on the part of the defendant *60tended to show that he did not have a pistol at the time charged. On this state of the evidence, the defendant requested the court to instruct the jury, that if the evidence of the State consists in the statements of a witness, of the truth of which the jury have a reasonable doubt, they can not convict on such evidence,…