Pitts v. State

The indictment contained two counts, one charging the defendant with- carrying a pistol without having obtained the license required by law, and the other with carrying a pistol concealed. There was plain evidence, if the State’s witness was credible, of the defendant’s guilt of carrying the pistol concealed; and he admitted that he had not obtained a license. It is insisted, however, that the evidence of his guilt of carrying a pistol concealed was obtained by unlawful seizure.and search of his person, thus compelling him to furnish testimony against himself; and that his conviction upon the…