Wells v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hurt

Reversing.

William Wells was accused by an indictment in the Letcher circuit court of the offense of carrying concealed upon and about his person a deadly weapon, a pistol, lie demurred generally to the indictment, hut the demurrer was overruled. He then entered a plea of not guilty. The witness for the Commonwealth, upon whose testimony the indictment was found, being absent, for the purposes of a trial, Wells admitted in open court and agreed that it be considered as proven “that at the time stated in the indictment he had the pistol therein charged,…