Fretwell v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—This conviction was for unlawfully carrying on and about his person a pistol.

The State’s case is, that appellant and the witness Ham McCarty and two others, had called on the witness Hobson requesting him to give the boys a party. This was declined by Hobson. Appellant and McCarty went away from Hobson in company with each other, and after leaving Hobson’s residence, at a point three or four hundred yards distant, appellant stated that if he had a pistol he would discharge it. McCarty handed him his pistol, and appellant fired it once, possibly twice, and…