Long v. State

339 S.W.2d 215 (1960)

Charles Herbert LONG, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 31934.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 18, 1960.

Rehearing Denied October 5, 1960.

Wardlaw, Cochran & Brown, by George E. Cochran, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is under Art. 489c, Vernon's Ann.P.C. for the unlawful possession of a pistol by a person who had been previously convicted of burglary; the punishment, 2 years in the penitentiary.

The indictment alleged that appellant, on or about the first day of February, 1959,…