Gee v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for unlawfully carrying a pistol; punishment, thirty days confinement in the county jail.

An officer arrested appellant upon suspicion of his con nection with a theft, and after his arrest found in appellant’s car, pushed down behind a cushion, a pistol. Upon the trial the State produced a witness who testified that some time prior to said arrest and the finding of said pistol, he, witness, had turned over to appellant to hold as security for a small debt, the pistol so found by the officer, which the witness last referred to claimed belonged to him. Appellant as a…