Brown v. State

Hpon .the trial of the plaintiff in error for the offense of carrying a pistol without having obtained the license required by. law, a witness for the State testified that he and another person compelled the accused, at the. point of a shotgun (with which the witness had just killed another negro), to hold up .his hands and submit to a forcible search. The search of the defendant’s person disclosed the fact .that lie-was carrying a pistol. On timely objection to this testimony, upon the ground that neither the witness nor the person who accompanied him had a warrant, and that neither of them…