Reid v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Cammack

Reversing.

Don Reid has filed a motion for an appeal from a judgment finding him guilty of carrying, concealed, a deadly weapon and fixing his punishment at 40 days in jail and a fine of $100. Since we have reached the conclusion there was not sufficient evidence to warrant the submission of the case to the jury, we are sustaining the motion.

The record contains a brief statement of the evidence in narrative form. It is as follows:

“* * * The Commonwealth introduced as its first witness J. M. Johnson, a Deputy Sheriff, who testified that he was…