Canter v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

The appellant, Bascom Canter, a young man, thirty-three years of age, and who resided at Versailles, for the pleasure of the trip, made a journey to Lexington and returned the same day. He left Versailles at about eleven o ’clock, and rode on a motor truck to Lexington, and returned to Versailles at about twenty-five minutes after three o’clock. He carried with him to Lexington a hand satchel or grip, and a pistol. The grip was taken, in which to bring back, as he says, at the request of a friend, a dozen bottles of beer, and the pistol was carried…