Monahan v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

The indictment upon which a jury found appellant (defendant) guilty charged that he “did unlawfully possess or unlawfully have in his possession a pistol, after being convicted of a crime of violence, to-wit: Manslaughter... . ” The court fixed his punishment at imprisonment for thirteen months and sentenced him accordingly.

A statement of details of the evidence is not necessary to an understanding of the issues presented on appeal and of our determination thereof. The following suffices. Only two witnesses testified, one called by the State and the other…