Stevens v. Commonwealth

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Appellant John Ed Stevens was convicted in the Pulaski Circuit Court of the crime of carrying concealed a deadly weapon on or about his person as denounced by KRS 435.230. From a judgment sentencing him to two years in the State Reformatory he appeals.

When appellant was apprehended by the police he was sitting on the right-hand side of the front seat of an automobile. Directly beneath him and under the seat the police found his pistol.

Appellant testified that the slide or ejector mechanism was jammed and the pistol would not fire in that condition. The police officers…