Mendez v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court at law of Tarrant County of unlawfully carrying on and about his person a pistol, and his punishment fixed at thirty days confinement in the county jail.

It was New Year’s eve on Valley Street in the patriotic city of Port Worth. As the whistles of the great packing plants, railroad yards and industrial concerns began shrieking notice of the birth of the new year at midnight, this appellant, — although a stranger in a strange land, — stepped out on what is called in the testimony the “sidewalk” in front of his humble dwelling and…