People v. Suazo Morales

The defendant has appealed from a judgment of the district court sentencing him to jail for one month on a charge of carrying a prohibited weapon.

*28The testimony was. that the defendant, the manager of the Esquife Club, was having trouble with a drunken patron and sent for a policeman; that before the latter arrived, the defendant forcibly ejected the patron, who had become obstreperous and who had struck the defendant in the mouth, causing it to bleed; that the patron left and returned with a knife; that when the defendant was appraised of this fact, he got his revolver, which was under the…