Wilson v. State

OPINION

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is unlawfully carrying a pistol; the punishment, 6 months in jail.

Trial was before a jury on a plea of not guilty.

The only ground of error raised on appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction. Appellant contends that his case falls within the exception to the pistol law (Art. 484, Vernon’s Ann. P.C.) which excludes from the operation of the statute “the carrying of arms on one’s own premises.”

The jury was charged as follows:

“As a part of the law in this case, a defendant has the legal right to carry a pistol upon premises of…