Morrison v. State

DAYIDSOH Judge.

Appellant was placed on trial in the County Court of Anderson County on a charge of carrying, on and about his person, brass knuckles. The jury acquitted him of this charge, and the judgment of acquittal was regularly entered. Afterwards, in the same court, he was placed on trial for carrying, on and about his person, “knuckles made out of metal, same being hard substance.” At the proper time appellant interposed in bar to this prosecution the acquittal upon the first information, which charged that he carried on and about' his person, brass knuckles. The question presented is…