Davis v. State

Morrow, Presiding Judge.

Unlawfully carrying a pistol is the offense; penalty assessed at a fine of $100.00.

The State’s testimony is to the effect that W. E. Bishop, a deputy constable, and a companion were riding in an automobile on Franklin Street in the city of Beaumont about two o’clock in the morning of May 8, 1938; that they saw the appellant who appeared to be driving an automobile in a reckless manner. They followed the appellant’s car and “clocked him” at forty-five miles an hour down Franklin Street. As the appellant turned in on Johns Street, he was apprehended and arrested for…