Gonzalez v. State

The record reveals that the defendant was charged with possessing a weapon in her neighbor’s yard. At trial the defendant claimed that she was in her own yard at all times but admitted that she had a weapon which she had taken away from her father earlier in the day and brought to her home.

In final argument the state argued that since defendant admitted carrying the concealed weapon from her father’s home to her own home, she had admitted the crime and the jury no longer had to worry about the dispute as to whether the defendant was on her own or her neighbor’s property. The tri^l court…