Mireles v. State

PBENDEBGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of unlawfully carrying on his person a bowie knife and assessed the lowest punishment.

It is unnecessary to take up all of appellant’s assigned errors. He contended that the knife with which he is charged with unlawfully carrying was not a bowie knife, but was a butcher knife for cutting meat, bread, etc. We find with the record a certain knife in a scabbard, the blade of which must be some nine inches in length" with a handle four or five inches long, but it is in no way identified as the knife and scabbard which was found on appellant. Our statute…