Vargas v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for unlawfully carrying a slung-shot; punishment six months in the county jail.

Several witnesses for the State testified that about eleven o’clock in the daytime they arrested appellant and another Mexican walking along the road or street in north Lubbock. Appellant had under his arm a bundle which, upon investigation, was found to contain a new leather jacket. Noticing a bulk of something under appellant’s clothes, this was found to contain what three officers called a slung-shot, being a piece of steel or metal enclosed in strips of horse-hide or leather, one end…