Coleman v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of carrying a prohibited weapon, a pistol. His punishment was assessed at a fine of two hundred dollars.

The statement of facts reflects that shortly after midnight on January 24, 1972, two Waco policemen received a call reporting a disturbance involving a weapon at a drive-in grocery. On their way to the scene, the officers observed appellant’s car in the vicinity, and noted that it matched the description of a car reportedly involved in an earlier disturbance. Upon arriving at the drive-in grocery, the officers talked with the clerk of the store…