Jarvis v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Reversing.

Albert Jarvis has been convicted of the crime of carrying concealed a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol, on or about his person, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years. The principal ground urged for reversal of the judgment is the failure of the court to give the whole law of the case when instructing the jury. The instructions given by the court follow the instructions in Stanley on Instructions, section 842, but appellant insists that in view of the evidence an additional instruction should have been…