Buckley v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of the offense of unlawfully carrying a pistol, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

There is but one question in the record that should be reviewed, did the court err in failing to give a special charge requested by defendant ? In a misdemeanor case the court is not required to charge the jury unless requested so to do, but in the event he does do so, he should correctly present the law as applicable to that case, and if he does not do so, -and the error in the charge is excepted to at the time and a special charge requested in…