Quinn v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol on and about his person. It is not controverted that he carried the pistol. His defense was that he had exchanged a gun for said pistol, and had procured the pistol from the party with whom he swapped and was then carrying it home; and on the way stopped, at the house of prosecutor, which was directly ón the road, and accosted him with regard to an insult which he claimed was committed by the prosecutor toward his wife a day or two previous, and which he had heard the night before. The court instructed the jury,…