Lewis v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Matagorda County for unlawfully carrying a pistol.

His only defense seems to have been that he was at the time a deputy city marshal in the town of Bay City, and he claims that his carrying said pistol outside of the city limits of Bay City was not a violation of the law. It seems that, in connection with his other business, he was the proprietor of a jitney car, and while acting in that capacity carried passengers some distance outside of the city limits of Bay City, and on the occasion in question, while at the place outside of…