Allen v. State

1. The defendant was convicted of having and carrying about his person and on his person, and having in his manual possession outside of his home and place of business, a pistol without first taking out a license from the Ordinary of Jackson County. The State made out a prima facie case of this charge by evidence from which the jury were authorized to find that the defendant alighted from his car in the street and carried into a filling station a pistol on his person fastened with and under his belt. The burden then shifted to the defendant to show that he had a license to carry a pistol. He…