Melton v. State

Lewis Melton was convicted under an accusation which charged him with carrying a pistol without first taking *502out a license. The evidence shows that Tom Millen ran a filling station and owned a store about 150 .yards from his residence in Meriwether county, Georgia. When lie closed his store on the night'of December 12, 1929, lie picked up a little sack of money and his pistol, which he daily carried to and from his residence, and, while on his way home, stopped and entered an automobile in which Lewis Melton, the defendant, was sitting, sat down on the right side of the car, and placed his…