Oliver v. State

Robert Earl Oliver was charged by indictment with having a pistol in his possession or control after having been convicted of a crime of violence, to-wit, grand larceny. The jury found the appellant "guilty as charged," and the trial court set sentence at four years imprisonment in the penitentiary. It is from the overruling of the appellant's motion to exclude the State's evidence made during trial and his motion for new trial, each asserting that there was no probable cause for believing that the appellant was about to commit a felony, nor did he commit a misdemeanor in the officers'…